(VB.NET) Add Binary Email Attachment from In-Memory Bytes

Demonstrates how to add an attachment to an email via the AddDataAttachment and AddDataAttachment2 methods.

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Dim email As New Chilkat.Email
Dim success As Boolean

' First populate a simple email.
email.Subject = "This is the subject."
email.Body = "This is a simple email body."
email.From = "Chilkat Software <support@chilkatsoft.com>"
email.AddTo("Some Recipient","someRecipient@somewhere.com")

' Load a JPG file.
' The actual source of your attachment data can come from anywhere.
' The point here is that we're first getting the bytes in memory, and THEN adding
' the bytes as an attachment.
Dim fac As New Chilkat.FileAccess
Dim jpgBytes() As Byte
jpgBytes = fac.ReadEntireFile("qa_data/jpg/starfish20.jpg")

' Add the JPG bytes via AddDataAttachment.
email.AddDataAttachment("tinyStarfish.jpg",jpgBytes)

' We could also add the JPG and explicitly set the content-type w/ AddDataAttachment2
email.AddDataAttachment2("teenyStarfish.jpg",jpgBytes,"image/jpg")


' Examine the MIME:
Debug.WriteLine(email.GetMime())

' This is the MIME of the email:
' (Note: All headers beginning with "CKX-" are automatically removed by Chilkat when sending..)

' 	MIME-Version: 1.0
' 	Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 19:28:30 -0500
' 	Message-ID: <44E3519660F8C3B1F0D95F25D1FD5B3840C3E3FE@CHILKAT13>
' 	Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------020509000105040006080600"
' 	X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
' 	Subject: This is the subject.
' 	From: "Chilkat Software" <support@chilkatsoft.com>
' 	CKX-Bounce-Address: support@chilkatsoft.com
' 	To: "Some Recipient" <someRecipient@somewhere.com>
' 
' 	--------------020509000105040006080600
' 	Content-Type: text/plain
' 	Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
' 
' 	This is a simple email body.
' 	--------------020509000105040006080600
' 	Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="tinyStarfish.jpg"
' 	Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
' 	Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="tinyStarfish.jpg"
' 
' 	/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEASABIAAD//gAmRmlsZSB3cml0dGVuIGJ5IEFkb2JlIFBob3Rvc2hvcD8g
' 	NC4w/9sAQwAQCwwODAoQDg0OEhEQExgoGhgWFhgxIyUdKDozPTw5Mzg3QEhcTkBEV0U3OFBtUVdf
' 	YmdoZz5NcXlwZHhcZWdj/9sAQwEREhIYFRgvGhovY0I4QmNjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2Nj
' 	Y2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2Nj/8IAEQgAFAAUAwERAAIRAQMRAf/EABcAAAMBAAAA
' 	AAAAAAAAAAAAAAIDBAX/xAAYAQADAQEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAgMEAP/aAAwDAQACEAMQAAAB2kZY
' 	NNEijWKddfTmLgALWH//xAAbEAACAgMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAgMRAAQSE//aAAgBAQABBQL0XqN+
' 	pM2aqJGMiqFFCyg7z//EABwRAAICAgMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAERAAIQIQMSUf/aAAgBAwEBPwHqU5aq
' 	Axx+y1tMQl4elj//xAAcEQEAAQUBAQAAAAAAAAAAAAABEQACEBIhA1H/2gAIAQIBAT8B3Bhqy7Zc
' 	enyiwmGgDhiOzj//xAAdEAABAwUBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAIREBIhIkFR/9oACAEBAAY/ArZyn+Cg
' 	xtxWuJaoCnqDuin/xAAcEAABBAMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABABEhYRAxQVH/2gAIAQEAAT8hkEwPUUR9
' 	DYfE4nxtRpIkBTsayuALIiuY/9oADAMBAAIAAwAAABDWPTsf/8QAGhEAAwADAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
' 	AAEREDFBIf/aAAgBAwEBPxC0DVPcWm+Ce4OesrkE6bjH/8QAGBEBAQEBAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAREA
' 	QRD/2gAIAQIBAT8QahMiOc8YgSrnTY3ELclHXn//xAAcEAEBAAIDAQEAAAAAAAAAAAABEQAhMUFx
' 	EFH/2gAIAQEAAT8Qn3igmSZSj+c4N4zapMy9IjFV98wncN2iuLFsCEbDGxQkI6RO/n//2Q==
' 
' 	--------------020509000105040006080600
' 	Content-Type: image/jpg; name="teenyStarfish.jpg"
' 	Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
' 	Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="teenyStarfish.jpg"
' 
' 	/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEASABIAAD//gAmRmlsZSB3cml0dGVuIGJ5IEFkb2JlIFBob3Rvc2hvcD8g
' 	NC4w/9sAQwAQCwwODAoQDg0OEhEQExgoGhgWFhgxIyUdKDozPTw5Mzg3QEhcTkBEV0U3OFBtUVdf
' 	YmdoZz5NcXlwZHhcZWdj/9sAQwEREhIYFRgvGhovY0I4QmNjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2Nj
' 	Y2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2Nj/8IAEQgAFAAUAwERAAIRAQMRAf/EABcAAAMBAAAA
' 	AAAAAAAAAAAAAAIDBAX/xAAYAQADAQEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAgMEAP/aAAwDAQACEAMQAAAB2kZY
' 	NNEijWKddfTmLgALWH//xAAbEAACAgMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAgMRAAQSE//aAAgBAQABBQL0XqN+
' 	pM2aqJGMiqFFCyg7z//EABwRAAICAgMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAERAAIQIQMSUf/aAAgBAwEBPwHqU5aq
' 	Axx+y1tMQl4elj//xAAcEQEAAQUBAQAAAAAAAAAAAAABEQACEBIhA1H/2gAIAQIBAT8B3Bhqy7Zc
' 	enyiwmGgDhiOzj//xAAdEAABAwUBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAIREBIhIkFR/9oACAEBAAY/ArZyn+Cg
' 	xtxWuJaoCnqDuin/xAAcEAABBAMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABABEhYRAxQVH/2gAIAQEAAT8hkEwPUUR9
' 	DYfE4nxtRpIkBTsayuALIiuY/9oADAMBAAIAAwAAABDWPTsf/8QAGhEAAwADAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
' 	AAEREDFBIf/aAAgBAwEBPxC0DVPcWm+Ce4OesrkE6bjH/8QAGBEBAQEBAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAREA
' 	QRD/2gAIAQIBAT8QahMiOc8YgSrnTY3ELclHXn//xAAcEAEBAAIDAQEAAAAAAAAAAAABEQAhMUFx
' 	EFH/2gAIAQEAAT8Qn3igmSZSj+c4N4zapMy9IjFV98wncN2iuLFsCEbDGxQkI6RO/n//2Q==
' 
' 	--------------020509000105040006080600--
'