I need to send an email with a meeting calendar part and also with the same attached file ics. When I do it with commented lines that implement adding an attachment(as in code below) I recieve the message on Outlook without ics file but with well-displayed calendar; otherwise when attachment added I can only see the ics file and body of the message but calendar part is missing.
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine("Welcome");
var client = new SmtpClient();
Console.WriteLine("connection success");
// Now Contruct the ICS file using string builder
MailMessage msg = new MailMessage();
msg.From = new MailAddress("[email protected]", "Sender's Name");
msg.To.Add(new MailAddress("[email protected]", "To Name"));
msg.Subject = "Send mail with ICS file as an Attachment";
msg.Body = "Please Attend the meeting with this schedule";
StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder();
str.AppendLine("BEGIN:VCALENDAR");
str.AppendLine("PRODID:-//Schedule a Meeting");
str.AppendLine("VERSION:2.0");
str.AppendLine("METHOD:REQUEST");
str.AppendLine("BEGIN:VEVENT");
str.AppendLine(string.Format("DTSTART:{0:yyyyMMddTHHmmssZ}", DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(+10)));
str.AppendLine(string.Format("DTSTAMP:{0:yyyyMMddTHHmmssZ}", DateTime.UtcNow));
str.AppendLine(string.Format("DTEND:{0:yyyyMMddTHHmmssZ}", DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(+60)));
str.AppendLine("LOCATION: CGI");
str.AppendLine(string.Format("UID:{0}", Guid.NewGuid()));
str.AppendLine(string.Format("DESCRIPTION:{0}", msg.Body));
str.AppendLine(string.Format("X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:{0}", msg.Body));
str.AppendLine(string.Format("SUMMARY:{0}", msg.Subject));
str.AppendLine(string.Format("ORGANIZER:MAILTO:{0}", msg.From.Address));
str.AppendLine(string.Format("ATTENDEE;CN=\"{0}\";RSVP=TRUE:mailto:{1}", msg.To[0].DisplayName, msg.To[0].Address));
str.AppendLine("BEGIN:VALARM");
str.AppendLine("TRIGGER:-PT15M");
str.AppendLine("ACTION:DISPLAY");
str.AppendLine("DESCRIPTION:Reminder");
str.AppendLine("END:VALARM");
str.AppendLine("END:VEVENT");
str.AppendLine("END:VCALENDAR");
System.Net.Mime.ContentType contype = new System.Net.Mime.ContentType("text/calendar");
contype.Parameters.Add("method", "REQUEST");
contype.Parameters.Add("name", "Meeting.ics");
AlternateView avCal = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString(str.ToString(), contype);
msg.AlternateViews.Add(avCal);
//Byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(str.ToString());
//var ms = new System.IO.MemoryStream(bytes);
//msg.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(ms, contype));
client.Send(msg);
Console.WriteLine("Sent");
Console.ReadLine();
}