.NET 2.0 MailMessage - probably a dumb question..

[jenbuh]

Let me just preface by saying that I recently learned ASP (not .NET) in a college class I took and then decided to develop my own webpage. Little did I know that .NET is now the standard.

Anyway, I converted my html form over to .NET so that I could take advantage of the e-mailing feature.

I've found a lot of information on how to use this but can't seem to find one simple detail.

All documentation says: "Create a MailMessage object and assign its properties."

How and WHERE do I do this?

[chazzy]

in your backing page. you should have a .cs or .vb file for the page.

[jenbuh]

How do I create the object?

[debiguana]

First off, if your college is still teaching Classic ASP, they're *WAY* behind the times... They have in all likelihood taught you things which you will now have to un-learn.

As far as how to send the email,
This article (http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/072606-1.aspx) does a great job of showing you how to do it.

As far as the other side of things (learning .NET), 4guysfromrolla.com is a very good resource, and are other areas (and the MSDN documentation is actually one of the best resources as well). I would also recommend picking up a copy of "ASP.Net 2.0 with C# 2005" (Murach) - it will help you make the transition quickly (it did for me with moving from the PHP/Unix world to .NET)

Hope this helps!
-Doug

[mayanksrmcem]

you can try an other link to look some code example for sending e-mails...

the link is as follows...

http://www.aspnettutorials.com/tutorials/email/

thanks

[ryanbutler]

As far as creating the object, C# would look like:

MailMessage mailMsg=new MailMessage();

The constructor takes four parameters/arguments by default, I usually use the first two parameters and go from there ,like so:

MailMessage mailMsg=new MailMessage(EmailTB.Text, "myemail@domain.com");

mailMsg.Subject="BLah";
mailMsg.Body="Something";

SmtpClient smtp=new SmtpClient();

smtp.Send(mailMsg);


If I'd quit being lazy, I'd write an article on this for webreference.com.