PackagePart.ContentType Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.IO.Packaging

Assembly:

System.IO.Packaging.dll

Source:

PackagePart.cs

Gets the MIME type of the content stream.

C#

public string ContentType { get; }

Property Value

String

The MIME type of the content data stream for the part.

Exceptions

InvalidOperationException

The part has been deleted.

-or-

The Package is not open (Dispose(Boolean) or Close() has been called).

-or-

The string returned by the derived class GetContentTypeCore() method is empty.

Remarks

ContentType is a read-only property that can be accessed only when the parent Package is open.

The ContentType property is automatically set by the PackagePart constructor. After it is set by the constructor, the ContentType cannot be changed.

The ContentType property is a MIME type formed in accordance with the RFC 2616 Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP, Section 3.7. The following table shows an example of the content MIME types used in XML Paper Specification (XPS) documents.

Description	Content Type
Font	application/vnd.ms-opentype
ICC profile	application/vnd.ms-color.iccprofile
JPEG image	image/jpeg
Obfuscated font	application/vnd.ms-package.obfuscated-opentype
PNG image	image/png
PrintTicket	application/vnd.ms-printing.printticket+xml
TIFF image	image/tiff
Windows Media Photo image	image/vnd.ms-photo

Applies to

See also

• GetStream
• Open Packaging Conventions Specification