How to send email using Windows Forms

[SABhatti]

Can someone guide me the best way to send email in windows forms (not web forms), right now I'm using CDO.Message and have to create it in a conventional way CreateObject("CDO.Message") and CreateObject("CDO.Configuration"). Is there any other way? -----

[Mike Ellison]

Use System.Web.Mail objects in .NET http://www.systemwebmail.com[^] is a great resource on this namespace.

[SABhatti]

Thanks Mike, but System.Web.Mail is not available in Windows Forms, it is for Web Forms. And I am talking about email through Windows Forms or a Desktop Application -----

[Mike Ellison]

Hi there. Sure it is available. Just include the namespace in your project source (with a using statement for C# or an imports statement for VB), and add a reference to the System.Web dll.

[Mike Ellison]

Just in case it helps - this isn't a WinForms app, but it is a console application that shows using System.Web.Mail outside the context of an ASP.NET app. Command Line Emailer article[^]

[SABhatti]

thanx once again Mike, I was not adding reference so stupid of me :-D... -----

[minhpc_bk]

Hi SABhatti, That's why in the .Net framework 2.0, the classes used to send the email are placed under the new namespace System.Net.Mail [^] so that the developers will not be confused that it's only used by the ASP.NET applications.

[SABhatti]

thanx Minhcpc_bk, that's really so nice of microsoft..:-D -----