Export MSG to MD via .NET
.NET API to Render MSG to MD on Windows, macOS, and Linux without using Word or Outlook
As a .NET developer, you may need to add MSG to MD conversion features to your applications. To do this, you can use the powerful file format manipulation APIs from Aspose.Total for .NET. Aspose.Email for .NET is a great tool for converting MSG files to HTML. After that, Aspose.Words for .NET can be used to render HTML to MD.
Aspose.Total for .NET is a comprehensive suite of APIs that provides developers with the tools they need to create, manipulate, and convert a wide range of file formats. It includes APIs for working with Microsoft Office documents, PDFs, images, emails, and more. Aspose.Email for .NET is a powerful API for working with emails, and it can be used to convert MSG files to HTML. Aspose.Words for .NET is an API for working with Microsoft Word documents, and it can be used to render HTML to MD.
Using Aspose.Total for .NET, you can easily add MSG to MD conversion features to your applications. Aspose.Email for .NET can be used to convert MSG files to HTML, and Aspose.Words for .NET can be used to render HTML to MD. This makes it easy to add MSG to MD conversion features to your applications.
Aspose.Total for .NET is a great tool for .NET developers who need to add MSG to MD conversion features to their applications. It includes powerful APIs for working with emails and Microsoft Word documents, and it makes it easy to convert MSG files to HTML and render HTML to MD. With Aspose.Total for .NET, you can easily add MSG to MD conversion features to your applications.
C# API to Convert MSG to MD
- Open MSG file using MailMessage class
- Convert MSG to HTML by using Save method
- Load HTML by using Document class
- Save the document to MD format using Save method and set Md as SaveFormat
Get Started with .NET File Format APIs
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MailMessage message = MailMessage.Load("sourceFile.msg");
// save MSG as a HTML
message.Save("HtmlOutput.html", SaveOptions.DefaultHtml);
// load HTML with an instance of Document
Document document = new Document("HtmlOutput.html");
// call save method while passing SaveFormat.Md
document.Save("output.md", SaveFormat.Md);
Parse MSG File via .NET
Before converting MSG to MD, if you want to make sure that you are converting the correct email, you can load MSG document, parse it and have a look at your desired property. By using MapiMessage class of Aspose.Email for .NET API, you can get sender and recipients information. For example, you can check for a specific sender email for the conversion by using SenderName property.
var outlookMessageFile = MapiMessage.FromFile("message.msg");
// check for SenderName
if(outlookMessageFile.SenderName == "John"){
//proceed with conversion process
}
Restrict MD Document Editing via .NET
While saving the document from MSG to MD, you might need to protect your output document. Sometimes you may need to limit the ability to edit a document and only allow certain actions with it. This can be useful to prevent other people from editing sensitive and confidential information in your document. Aspose.Words for .NET API, enables you to control the way you restrict the content using the ProtectionType enumeration parameter. You can set your document to read-only by using the following lines of code.
Document document = new Document("HtmlOutput.html");
// apply document protection and set protection password
doc.Protect(ProtectionType.ReadOnly, "password");
// call save method while passing SaveFormat.Md
document.Save("output.md", SaveFormat.Md);