Sending SMTP E-mail from a VB.NET App

[enemygateisdown]

Hi Guys,

I am trying to send SMTP e-mail from my VB.NET App. Doing some digging around it appears I should be able to do this by using:

System.Web.Mail

However when I try to declare an object of this type it does not recognise this type. I can find System.Web but "Mail" is not a component of Web.

I am developing this on my laptop which does not appear to have CDO.sys installed. I am guessing that this component is made available through CDO..

Do I need CDO installed to use this component? If this is the case does anyone know where I can get hold of it?

Any help is as always greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Chris

 

[kulrom]

I will show you an example just i want to be sure that you are using declared Primary Platform (Vs 2003) ... otherwise tell me if you are using VS 2005 as they differs from each other (in this case)

Regards

 

[enemygateisdown]

Thanks, I am using Visual Studio 2003 (.Net 1.1)

Cheers,

Chris

 

[vis781]

As i understand it the .net 1.x system.web.mail namespace uses cdo.sys, in .net 2.0 it doesn't but probably some other form of com+ But does that explain why you cant access the namespace?, dunno.

 

[kulrom]

check this out but be aware about this part:

import the System.Web.Mail namespace (one which provides the classes for sending email) and then in the general section, declare required variables ...

You can do that by adding reference: Project - > add reference - > locate "System.Web" and click OK
Now just add this line:
Imports System.Web.Mail
Actually it will be easier to follow up this thread:

http://www.dotnetrooms.com/showthread.php?t=23&highlight=email

Regards