Attachment.ContentDisposition Property

Definition

Gets the MIME content disposition for this attachment.

C#
public System.Net.Mime.ContentDisposition? ContentDisposition { get; }
C#
public System.Net.Mime.ContentDisposition ContentDisposition { get; }

Property Value

A ContentDisposition that provides the presentation information for this attachment.

Examples

The following code example gets the ContentDisposition for an attachment and displays its properties.

C#
public static void CreateMessageAttachment1(string server, string textMessage)
{
    // Create a message and set up the recipients.
    MailMessage message = new MailMessage(
       "jane@contoso.com",
       "ben@contoso.com",
       "A text message for you.",
       "Message: ");

    // Attach the message string to this email message.
    Attachment data = new Attachment(textMessage, MediaTypeNames.Text.Plain);
    ContentDisposition disposition = data.ContentDisposition;
    // Suggest a file name for the attachment.
    disposition.FileName = "message" + DateTime.Now.ToString();
    message.Attachments.Add(data);
    //Send the message.
    SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient(server);
    client.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;

    try
    {
        client.Send(message);
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Exception caught in CreateMessageAttachment1(): {0}",
            ex.ToString());
    }
    // Display the values in the ContentDisposition for the attachment.
    Console.WriteLine("Content disposition");
    Console.WriteLine(disposition.ToString());
    Console.WriteLine("File {0}", disposition.FileName);
    Console.WriteLine("Size {0}", disposition.Size);
    Console.WriteLine("Creation {0}", disposition.CreationDate);
    Console.WriteLine("Modification {0}", disposition.ModificationDate);
    Console.WriteLine("Read {0}", disposition.ReadDate);
    Console.WriteLine("Inline {0}", disposition.Inline);
    Console.WriteLine("Parameters: {0}", disposition.Parameters.Count);
    foreach (DictionaryEntry d in disposition.Parameters)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("{0} = {1}", d.Key, d.Value);
    }
    data.Dispose();
}

Remarks

The information in the ContentDisposition class represents the MIME Content-Disposition header. This header is described in RFC 2183, available at https://www.ietf.org/.

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET Core 2.0, Core 2.1, Core 2.2, Core 3.0, Core 3.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
.NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1
.NET Standard 2.0, 2.1