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08/21/2009

FileAttachment

Topic Last Modified: 2007-10-18

The FileAttachment element represents a file that is attached to an item in the Exchange store.

Syntax

<FileAttachment>
   <AttachmentId/>
   <Name/>
   <ContentType/>
   <ContentId/>
   <ContentLocation/>
   <Content/>
</FileAttachment>

Type

FileAttachmentType

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

None.

Child Elements

Element	Description
AttachmentId	Identifies the file attachment.
Name (AttachmentType)	Represents the name of the attachment.
ContentType	Describes the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) type of the attachment content.
ContentId	Represents an identifier for the contents of an attachment. ContentId can be set to any string value. Applications can use ContentId to implement their own identification mechanisms.
ContentLocation	Contains the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that corresponds to the location of the content of the attachment.
Content	Contains the Base64-encoded contents of the file attachment.

Parent Elements

Element	Description
Attachments	Contains the items or files that are attached to an item in the Exchange store.

Remarks

The schema that describes this element is located in the EWS virtual directory of the computer that is running Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 that has the Client Access server role installed.

Element Information

Namespace	https://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types
Schema name	Types schema
Validation file	Types.xsd
Can be empty	False