Attach PDF file programmatically to Email and send

Let's see how PDF file is attached to an Email and sending programmatically. Lets see why this is important.

1) Email Templates cannot be created with an attachment. (Ironically!)
2) If we attach programmatically we can change the attachment based on logic if required.

In Summery, we can initiate Email in Draft state, then attach the PDF and then send.

Initiation and sending the e-mail part is explained in Programmatically create a draft Email using Email Template (C#).

Lets see the code

// Initiate Email in Draft state

// Create Attachment
byte[] embededPdf = LoadEmbeddedPdf("PluginProject.Resources.ApplicationForm.pdf")
Guid attachmentId = CreatePdfAttchment(OrgSvc,emailId, Convert.ToBase64String(embededPdf));

// Send Email

// Methods to use
private byte[] LoadEmbeddedPdf(string resourceName)
{
    var assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(); 
    using (Stream stream = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(resourceName))
    {
        if (stream == null)
            throw new FileNotFoundException("Embedded PDF file not found: " + resourceName);
        using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
        {
            stream.CopyTo(ms);
            return ms.ToArray();
        }
    }
}

public Guid CreatePdfAttchment(IOrganizationService OrgSvc, Guid emailId, string base64Pdf)
{
    Entity attachment = new Entity("activitymimeattachment");
    attachment["subject"] = "Application Form";
    attachment["filename"] = "ApplicationForm.pdf";
    attachment["mimetype"] = "application/pdf";
    attachment["body"] = base64Pdf;
    attachment["attachmentnumber"] = 1;
    attachment["objectid"] = new EntityReference("email", emailId);
    attachment["objecttypecode"] = "email";
    return OrgSvc.Create(attachment);
}

There are two important things here;

1. PDF is saved within the Project and path needs to be passed correctly in below standard.

<Project Namespace><Folder><filename>.pdf

So you will realize when I pass PluginProject.Resources.ApplicationForm.pdf, my project namespace is  PluginProject, folder name is Resources and pdf file name is ApplicationForm.pdf.

2. Go to properties of the PDF file (In VS) and do below setting.