Attachment.Name Property

Note: This property is new in the .NET Framework version 2.0.

Gets or sets the MIME content type name value in the content type associated with this attachment.

Namespace: System.Net.Mail
Assembly: System (in system.dll)

public:
property String^ Name {
	String^ get ();
	void set (String^ value);
}
/** @property */
public String get_Name ()

/** @property */
public void set_Name (String value)

public function get Name () : String

public function set Name (value : String)

Property Value

A String that contains the value for the content type name represented by the ContentType.Name property.

Exception typeCondition

ArgumentNullException

The value specified for a set operation is a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).

ArgumentException

The value specified for a set operation is Empty ("").

The Name property is used in the Content-Type header generated for this attachment. The Name is displayed as the attachment’s name when the email with the attachment is received. A grammar that details the syntax of the Content-Type header is described in RFC 2045 Section 5.1. RFC 2046 provides detailed information about MIME media types and their parameters. These RFCs are available at http://www.ietf.org.

The following code example demonstrates how to display information about an attachment.

public static void DisplayFileAttachment(Attachment a)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Content Disposition {0}", a.ContentDisposition.ToString());
    Console.WriteLine("Content Type {0}", a.ContentType.ToString());
    Console.WriteLine("Name {0}", a.Name);
}

Windows 98, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 2.0

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