Access a Part in a Multipart MIME Entity

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Mime.PartAt method, which provides live access to the direct child at a zero-based index. The first argument is the index and the second is a Mime object that will reference the child. Modifying it modifies the child stored in the parent tree.

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Background: This is how you reach into a multipart message to inspect or edit an individual part — read a part's Content-Type, extract an attachment's body, or change a part in place. The key point is that the returned Mime is a live reference, not a copy, so edits to it flow back into the parent tree. Loop from 0 to NumParts - 1 to visit every direct child.

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bool success = false;

Chilkat.Mime mime = new Chilkat.Mime();
success = mime.LoadMimeFile("qa_data/multipart_message.eml");
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(mime.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  PartAt provides LIVE access to a direct child part.  The 1st argument is the zero-based index
//  and the 2nd is a Mime object that will reference the child.  Modifying it modifies the child in
//  the parent tree.
int n = mime.NumParts;
Debug.WriteLine("Number of parts: " + Convert.ToString(n));

Chilkat.Mime part = new Chilkat.Mime();
int i;
for (i = 0; i <= n - 1; i++) {
    success = mime.PartAt(i,part);
    if (success == false) {
        Debug.WriteLine(mime.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    Debug.WriteLine("Part " + Convert.ToString(i) + " Content-Type: " + part.ContentType);
}