Export MSG to PCL via .NET
.NET API to Render MSG to PCL on Windows, macOS, and Linux without using Word or Outlook
As a .NET developer, you may need to add MSG to PCL conversion features to your applications. To do this, you can use the powerful file format manipulation APIs provided by Aspose.Total for .NET. Aspose.Email for .NET is a great tool for converting MSG file format to HTML. After that, Aspose.Words for .NET can be used to render HTML to PCL.
Aspose.Total for .NET is a suite of APIs that provides developers with a comprehensive set of tools for manipulating various file formats. It includes APIs for manipulating Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, Outlook, and other file formats. Aspose.Email for .NET is a powerful API for working with MSG files. It allows developers to easily convert MSG files to HTML, MHTML, and other formats. Aspose.Words for .NET is a powerful API for working with Word documents. It allows developers to easily render HTML to PCL, PDF, and other formats.
Using Aspose.Total for .NET, developers can quickly and easily add MSG to PCL conversion features to their applications. Aspose.Email for .NET makes it easy to convert MSG files to HTML, and Aspose.Words for .NET makes it easy to render HTML to PCL. With these powerful APIs, developers can quickly and easily add MSG to PCL conversion features to their applications.
C# API to Convert MSG to PCL
- Open MSG file using MailMessage class
- Convert MSG to HTML by using Save method
- Load HTML by using Document class
- Save the document to PCL format using Save method and set Pcl as SaveFormat
Conversion Requirements
Install from command line as nuget install Aspose.Total or via Package Manager Console of Visual Studio with Install-Package Aspose.Total.
Alternatively, get the offline MSI installer or DLLs in a ZIP file from downloads .
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.Pcl
document.Save("output.pcl", SaveFormat.Pcl);
Parse MSG File via .NET
Before converting MSG to PCL, 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 PCL Document Editing via .NET
While saving the document from MSG to PCL, 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.Pcl
document.Save("output.pcl", SaveFormat.Pcl);