Question

I have an excel file (Excel 2003 / xls format) and I want to send it by email with c#.
My code send it successfully, but when I try to open the response file, it seems to encoded wrongly.

For example here is the response filename:

=_utf-8_B_RWxzesOhbW9sw6FzXzIwMTJfMTBfMTZf.dat

And here is the response file itself:

=?utf-8?B?VEdWdmJIWmhjMkZ1Wk1Pelh6UXlYekZmPz0NCiA9P3V0Zi04P0I/VGtW?=\
\ =?utf-8?B?TlgwZFRXaTU0YkhNPT89?=” Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment

0M8R4KGxGuEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPgADAP7/CQAGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAA
AQAAAAAAAAAAEAAAIwAAAAEAAAD+////AAAAAAAAAAD/////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////// ….

Here is my code fragment:

...
var attachment = new Attachment(WriteFileToMemory("fileFullPath"), "fileName.xls");
attachment.ContentType = new ContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel");
attachmentCollection.Add(attachment);
...


private Stream WriteFileToMemory(string filePath)
{
    var memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
    _openedStreams.Add(memoryStream);
    using (var file = new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
    {
        var bytes = new byte[file.Length];
        file.Read(bytes, 0, (int) file.Length);
        memoryStream.Write(bytes, 0, (int) file.Length);
        file.Close();
    }
    memoryStream.Position = 0;
    return memoryStream;
}

How can I set the attachment encoding type, and which encoding should I use with Excel files?

Please help me solve this problem.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I found a solution:

...
var attachment = CreateAttachment(WriteFileToMemory(Common.TempPath + excelName), excelName);
attachmentCollection.Add(attachment);
...

private Stream WriteFileToMemory(string filePath)
{
    var fileStream = new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read);
    _openedStreams.Add(fileStream);
    return fileStream;
}

public static Attachment CreateAttachment(Stream attachmentFile, string displayName)
{
    var attachment = new Attachment(attachmentFile, displayName);
    attachment.ContentType = new ContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel");
    attachment.TransferEncoding = TransferEncoding.Base64;
    attachment.NameEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;
    string encodedAttachmentName = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(displayName));
    encodedAttachmentName = SplitEncodedAttachmentName(encodedAttachmentName);
    attachment.Name = encodedAttachmentName;
    return attachment;
}

private static string SplitEncodedAttachmentName(string encoded)
{
    const string encodingtoken = "=?UTF-8?B?";
    const string softbreak = "?=";
    const int maxChunkLength = 30;
    int splitLength = maxChunkLength - encodingtoken.Length - (softbreak.Length * 2);
    IEnumerable<string> parts = SplitByLength(encoded, splitLength);
    string encodedAttachmentName = encodingtoken;
    foreach (var part in parts)
    {
        encodedAttachmentName += part + softbreak + encodingtoken;
    }
    encodedAttachmentName = encodedAttachmentName.Remove(encodedAttachmentName.Length - encodingtoken.Length, encodingtoken.Length);
    return encodedAttachmentName;
}

private static IEnumerable<string> SplitByLength(string stringToSplit, int length)
{
    while (stringToSplit.Length > length)
    {
        yield return stringToSplit.Substring(0, length);
        stringToSplit = stringToSplit.Substring(length);
    }
    if (stringToSplit.Length > 0)
    {
        yield return stringToSplit;
    }
}

Based on this source: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/dotnetframeworkde/thread/b6c764f7-4697-4394-b45f-128a24306d55