Adding e-mail attachment using FileUpload

I recently had the need to have a user fill in a form that would be e-mailed to an administrator. The user had the option to attach a file to the e-mail using a FileUpload control, but I never really figured out how to attach that to the MailMessage object. I was always thinking that you had to do this the complicated way using streams and other sorts of methods, but it turns out it can be quite easy to accomplish using the piece of code below. The filUpload variable is the FileUpload control and the msg variable is an instance of the MailMessage class. Hopefully it can be of help to someone!

If filUpload.HasFile Then
   Dim path As String = Path.GetFileName(filUpload.PostedFile.FileName)
   Dim att As New Attachment(filUpload.FileContent, path)
   msg.Attachments.Add(att)
End If

Steven | Computer | 02-03-2009 7:52 | 2 reacties

Steven is een afgestudeerd Software Engineer en heeft een baan als .NET ontwikkelaar. Fan van wielrennen, doet zelf aan mountainbiken, speelt wanneer hij zin heeft op zijn gitaar en Xbox 360. Probeert met enige regelmaat te bloggen over vanalles en nog niets.