M365: Microsoft Graph – Part 11 – Send Email using Graph API from .Net Core Application with attachments

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Today again with my favorite feature “Microsoft Graph”. This is sequel of my previous Graph Article – M365: Microsoft Graph – Part 10 – Send Email using Graph API from Console Application (Background Job) 🙂

On this article one of friend asked for sending attachment as well. So thought why not to write an article 🙂

So in this article I wont get in detailed steps as already mentioned in article but will have only new changes.

In last article I have used Console Application with .Net Standard Framework, this time tried with .Net Core Framework as

Please refer last article for M365: Microsoft Graph – Part 10 – Send Email using Graph API from Console Application (Background Job) for following points

• Prerequisites
  • Creating Azure App – Office 365 – Azure Active Directory – Registering/Creating new Azure App – detailed steps
  • Permissions to App to send email – Mail.Send
• Detailed Code

Since this is .Net Core application, I am storing Azure App Key and Secret in JSON file – appsettings.json file as

Following references required

Following is the code to read JSON file from .NET CORE

        var config = new ConfigurationBuilder()
                 .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json")
                 .Build();
          var tenantID = config["TenantID"];
          var clientId = config["ClientId"];
          var clientSecret = config["ClientSecret"];

Now how to send attachments: There is a class called – MessageAttachmentsCollectionPage used to add multiple FileAttachment attachments as

      byte[] contentBytes = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(@"C:\outFile.csv");
      string contentType = "csv";

               MessageAttachmentsCollectionPage attachments = new                                
                      MessageAttachmentsCollectionPage();
                attachments.Add(new FileAttachment
                {
                    ODataType = "#microsoft.graph.fileAttachment",
                    ContentBytes = contentBytes,
                    ContentType = contentType,
                    ContentId = "testing",
                    Name = "outFile.csv"
                });

Then we have two properties for Message object –

• HasAttachments : boolean property which indicates whether message has attachments or not
• Attachments : collection of Attachments which we need to send. Instance of MessageAttachmentsCollectionPage class

Following is the sample of complete Message object

               var message = new Microsoft.Graph.Message
                {
                    Subject = Subject,
                    Body = new ItemBody
                    {
                        ContentType = Microsoft.Graph.BodyType.Html,
                        Content = Body
                    },
                    ToRecipients = new List<Recipient > ()
                    {
                    new Recipient
                    {

                        EmailAddress = new Microsoft.Graph.EmailAddress
                        {
                            Address = To
                        }
                    }
                    },
                    HasAttachments = true,
                    Attachments = attachments
                };

Following is the complete code

using Microsoft.Graph;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace MSGraphDemos
{
  public static class GraphServices
  {
  public static async void SendEmail(string To, string Subject, string Body)
  {
     try
     {
//AzureAuthProvider is our custom class. Please have a look at below code //snippet.
  AzureAuthProvider authProvider = new AzureAuthProvider();  
  GraphServiceClient _graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(authProvider);

  byte[] contentBytes = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(@"C:\outFile.csv");
  string contentType = "csv";

MessageAttachmentsCollectionPage attachments = new MessageAttachmentsCollectionPage();
attachments.Add(new FileAttachment
{
                    ODataType = "#microsoft.graph.fileAttachment",
                    ContentBytes = contentBytes,
                    ContentType = contentType,
                    ContentId = "testing",
                    Name = "outFile.csv"
                });

                var message = new Microsoft.Graph.Message
                {
                    Subject = Subject,
                    Body = new ItemBody
                    {
                        ContentType = Microsoft.Graph.BodyType.Html,
                        Content = Body
                    },
                    ToRecipients = new List<Recipient > ()
                    {
                    new Recipient
                    {

                        EmailAddress = new Microsoft.Graph.EmailAddress
                        {
                            Address = To
                        }
                    }
                    },
                    HasAttachments = true,
                    Attachments = attachments
                };

            _graphClient.Users["prasham@knowledgejunction1.onmicrosoft.com"]
                    .SendMail(message, true)
                    .Request()
                    .PostAsync().Wait(8000);
            }
            catch(Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Message " + ex.Message);
                Console.WriteLine("\nStackTrace " + ex.StackTrace);
            }
        }//SendEmail
    }//cs
}//ns

AzureAuthProvider class code:

using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
using Microsoft.Graph;
using Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory;
using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace MSGraphDemos
{
 class AzureAuthProvider : IAuthenticationProvider 
    {
     public async Task AuthenticateRequestAsync(HttpRequestMessage request)
        {
            try
            {

                var config = new ConfigurationBuilder()
                 .AddJsonFile("appsettings.json")
                 .Build();
                var tenantID = config["TenantID"];
                var clientId = config["ClientId"];
                var clientSecret = config["ClientSecret"];

                string resource = "https://graph.microsoft.com";
                //reading tenant id from JSON file
                string authority = "https://login.windows.net/" + tenantID;

  AuthenticationContext auth = new AuthenticationContext(authority, false);
 
ClientCredential clientCredential = new ClientCredential(clientId, clientSecret);

 var authResult = auth.AcquireTokenAsync(resource, clientCredential).Result;

                var accessToken = authResult.AccessToken;
            request.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Bearer " + accessToken);
   }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                //ToDo : Proper exception handling
                Console.Write("Exception Message: " + ex.Message);
                Console.Write("\n\nStack Trace: " + ex.StackTrace);
            }
        }
    }//cs
}//ns

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