Can I add an Outlook Attachment from a PictureBox image? - vb.net

Question

I have an image in my VB.NET Picture box. I would like to attach it to the email message I'm sending through Outlook without having to save it to the drive anywhere. Is it possible to do such a thing?
Here's what I have so far (taken from here):
Public Class email
Dim app As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application
Dim appNameSpace As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook._NameSpace
Dim memo As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem
Dim outbox As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MAPIFolder
Public Sub New(ByVal attachment)
Try
app = New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application
appNameSpace = app.GetNamespace("MAPI")
appNameSpace.Logon(Nothing, Nothing, False, False)
memo = app.CreateItem(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem)
memo.To = "notmy#realemailaddress.com"
memo.Subject = "Testing"
memo.Body = "Hello there"
memo.Attachments.Add(attachment, Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlAttachmentType.olByValue)
memo.Send()
Catch ex As Exception
Console.WriteLine(ex.Message)
End Try
End Sub
End Class
When I comment out the attachment line it works perfectly fine, otherwise it throws a COMError. I haven't been able to find any real good information about attaching an email that way, or if it's even possible. If I can't do it this way I plan on just saving the file to some random(ish) name in C:\TEMP\, but it would be nicer if I didn't have to worry about that.
Thanks for any help

Answer 1

Here are your options: Attachment Types
The source information here can help also:Attachment Add Function