Question

I have an image stored in sql server. I want to retrieve the image and place it in a MailMessage object, not as an attachment file, but as part of the html body.

I found many samples using local image file, but I have not found any using an image from a database.

Anyone know how I can do this in vb.net?

Thank you in advance!

Javier

Answer 1

You have to add the image from the database as a LinkedResource.
When you retrieve the image as bytes from the database, you can add the LinkedResource using a stream; by creating a memorystream from the bytes.

Code in C#, but I think you should be able to convert this to VB.Net

var view = System.Net.Mail.AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(text, null, "text/html");
var resource = new System.Net.Mail.LinkedResource(new MemoryStream(bytes), mime);
resource.ContentId = image.Name;
view.LinkedResources.Add(resource);
_message.AlternateViews.Add(view);