AlternateView Class
Represents the format to view an email message.
Assembly: System (in System.dll)
The AlternateView type exposes the following members.
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | AlternateView(Stream) | Initializes a new instance of AlternateView with the specified Stream. |
![]() | AlternateView(String) | Initializes a new instance of AlternateView with the specified file name. |
![]() | AlternateView(Stream, ContentType) | Initializes a new instance of AlternateView with the specified Stream and ContentType. |
![]() | AlternateView(Stream, String) | Initializes a new instance of AlternateView with the specified Stream and media type. |
![]() | AlternateView(String, ContentType) | Initializes a new instance of AlternateView with the specified file name and content type. |
![]() | AlternateView(String, String) | Initializes a new instance of AlternateView with the specified file name and media type. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | BaseUri | Gets or sets the Base URI to use for resolving relative URIs in the AlternateView. |
![]() | ContentId | Gets or sets the MIME content ID for this attachment. (Inherited from AttachmentBase.) |
![]() | ContentStream | Gets the content stream of this attachment. (Inherited from AttachmentBase.) |
![]() | ContentType | Gets the content type of this attachment. (Inherited from AttachmentBase.) |
![]() | LinkedResources | Gets the set of embedded resources referred to by this attachment. |
![]() | TransferEncoding | Gets or sets the encoding of this attachment. (Inherited from AttachmentBase.) |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() ![]() | CreateAlternateViewFromString(String) | Creates a AlternateView of an email message using the content specified in a String. |
![]() ![]() | CreateAlternateViewFromString(String, ContentType) | Creates an AlternateView of an email message using the content specified in a String and the specified MIME media type of the content. |
![]() ![]() | CreateAlternateViewFromString(String, Encoding, String) | Creates an AlternateView of an email message using the content specified in a String, the specified text encoding, and MIME media type of the content. |
![]() | Dispose() | Releases the resources used by the AttachmentBase. (Inherited from AttachmentBase.) |
![]() | Dispose(Boolean) | Releases the unmanaged resources used by the AlternateView and optionally releases the managed resources. (Overrides AttachmentBase::Dispose(Boolean).) |
![]() | Equals(Object) | Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | Finalize | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | GetHashCode | Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | MemberwiseClone | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | ToString | Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.) |
Use the AlternateView class to specify copies of an e-mail message in different formats. For example, if you send a message in HTML, you might also want provide a plain text version in case some of the recipients use e-mail readers that cannot display HTML content.
This class has two properties LinkedResources and BaseUri that are used to resolve URLs within the content of the email. LinkedResources is a collection of LinkedResource objects. When rendered, URLs within the e-mail's content are first matched against the URLs in the ContentLink of each LinkedResource object in the LinkedResources collection, and resolved. BaseUri is used by the mail reader to resolve relative URLs within the body, and also to resolve relative ContentLink URLs, in the LinkedResources collection.
Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2
The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.



