System.Net.Mime Namespace

The System.Net.Mime namespace holds types that are used to represent Multipurpose Internet Mail Exchange (MIME) headers. These types are used with the types in the System.Net.Mail namespace to specify Content-Type, Content-Disposition and Content-transfer-Encoding headers when using the SmtpClient class to send e-mail.

Classes

ContentDisposition

Represents a MIME protocol Content-Disposition header.

ContentType

Represents a MIME protocol Content-Type header.

DispositionTypeNames

Supplies the strings used to specify the disposition type for an e-mail attachment.

MediaTypeNames

Specifies the media type information for an e-mail message attachment.

MediaTypeNames.Application

Specifies the kind of application data in an e-mail message attachment.

MediaTypeNames.Image

Specifies the type of image data in an e-mail message attachment.

MediaTypeNames.Text

Specifies the type of text data in an e-mail message attachment.

Enums

TransferEncoding

Specifies the Content-Transfer-Encoding header information for an e-mail message attachment.

Remarks

MIME data is represented by the Attachment class.