This short tutorial contains information on how to open MSG file without Outlook in C#. You will get details about the environment settings, a step-wise process, and a runnable sample code to open MSG file in C#. You will learn to read and display different properties of the MSG file as well as the details of the attachments in the loaded MSG.

Steps to Open Outlook MSG file in C#

1. Establish the environment by adding Aspose.Email for .NET to read an MSG file
2. Load the source MSG file into a MapiMessage class object
3. Read and display different properties of the loaded MSG file
4. Parse through all the attachments in the MSG file
5. Read and display different properties of each attachment in the MSG file

These steps explain how to open MSG file in C# and retrieve its properties. First, you may load the MSG file into the MapiMessage object and then retrieve its properties along with the attachment details. Note that MapiMessage.Load() method has multiple overloaded functions supporting different load options using the LoadOptions class object like setting the message format and preferred text encoding.

Code to Read Outlook MSG Files in C#

This code demonstrates how to open Outlook MSG file in C#. You can display many other properties like billing information, body type, client submission time, companies, and conversation topic, to name a few. You can also set the properties if required and use different methods in the attachments collection to add, insert and remove the attachments.

This article has taught us how to open Outlook MSG file without Outlook in C#. If you want to learn the process for converting an EML to an MSG file, refer to the article on how to convert EML to MSG using C#.