Need to insert a picture in Outlook mail body using VB.net

Ruby Sharma 1

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Environment:
MS Outlook - Version 2019 (32 Bit)
OS: MS Windows 10 Pro
Development Language: - VB.net

Requirement : I need to insert a picture in the Outlook body using mail object in Vb.net code that we do manually.
It should be shown at center of the mail body.

Jade Liang-MSFT 9,956 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2021-07-30T04:55:03.617+00:00

Hi @Ruby Sharma ,

Please kindly understand under Outlook tag, we mainly focus on general issues about Outlook desktop client. Considering that your issue may be more related to vb.net development, I would add dotnet-visual-basic tag under your post to solve it better. Thanks for your understanding and hope your issue would be resolved soon.

1 answer

Castorix31 81,726 Reputation points

2021-07-30T16:22:55.933+00:00

This test works for me (you can change/improve the HTML code...) =>

Link to the code that I cannot post....
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Ruby Sharma 1 Reputation point

2021-07-30T18:00:33.613+00:00

Hi @Castorix31

This code will embed a picture in html body with some html content so now if I want to add my message content or want to insert an image in the mail body manually I won't be able to do so.
HTML body is already been used by html content.

So this is the exact problem I am facing

I was trying some code this way
'loadingImage = fileLocation & "\Images\loading.gif"
'mail = CType(actInspector.CurrentItem, Outlook.MailItem)
'mail.HTMLBody = "<body><center><img src =" & loadingImage & "></center></body>" & mail.Body
''mail.Display()

But this will remove the image that you will insert manually from the (Insert ->Pictures)tab
So if you can help ,me out in this

It would be really greatful

Xingyu Zhao-MSFT 5,356 Reputation points

2021-08-02T02:30:00.173+00:00

Hi @Ruby Sharma ,

... insert an image in the mail body manually

If you need to insert pictures manually, why not use outlook app?
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