Email with Embedded image in ASP.Net 2.0

We can embed image in email body using LinkedResource class and AlternateView class that is packed with System.Net.Mail namespace. We can achieve this by making the message as HTML.

How to achieve this?

 We have to include a <IMG> with a contentid specified in src attribute of <IMG> tag in the message body i.e. the HTML body should contain <img src="cid:imageId" />.

Example will be,

<b>View my Pic</b><br>

<img src="cid:Anyid" />

After doing this we need to give the same contentid to the ContentId attribute of LinkedResource to work.

Implememtation:

try

        {

            MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();

            mail.To.Add("xxx@gmail.com");

            mail.From = new MailAddress("xxxx@gmail.com");

            mail.Subject = "Test with Image";

            string Body = "<b>Welcome to popfly!!</b><br><img alt=\"\" hspace=0 src=\"cid:imageId\" align=baseline border=0 >";

            AlternateView htmlView = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(Body, null, "text/html");

            LinkedResource imagelink = new LinkedResource(Server.MapPath(".") + @"\popfly.JPG", "image/jpeg");

            imagelink.ContentId = "imageId";

            imagelink.TransferEncoding = System.Net.Mime.TransferEncoding.Base64;

            htmlView.LinkedResources.Add(imagelink);

            mail.AlternateViews.Add(htmlView);

            SmtpClient smtp = new SmtpClient();

            smtp.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.PickupDirectoryFromIis;

            smtp.Send(mail);

        }

        catch (Exception ex)

        {

            Response.Write(ex.Message);

        }

OUTPUT: