Last night I was thinking to write a small post about sending emails using .NET. Then I thought of using GMAIL smtp account to send email. So here is the code.

Now from here you can call this class and send email. I have used the static emails here but you can make it change accordingly to use it as dynamically. You will need to add more paramaters like "body" in calling this function.

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Whenever someone have to work on something in Visual Studio, he have to create a project to easily manage the code and the relative information about it. Visual Studio provides many different types of solutions but you need to choose the best suitable project or solution type. For creating an ASP.NET Project, you need to so following:

1. Open Visual Studio 2005 or 2008, whatever system installed on your PC.
2. In the left hand side of the Start Page, you can see Recent Projects.
3. Below that in the same area, you can find "Create Website" link.
4. IF, by some chance you can not find "Create Website", then go to File->New->Website.
5. There you can find the different solutions related to ASP.NET.
6. Choose the best that fits your needs, I mean if you want to create web services first then choose web services solution.

HINT: Personally I feel, whatever solution you choose, In the location dropdown, always choose HTTP, instead of FTP or File System and specify the path as http://localhost/ProjectName for a simple reason that, if you somehow migrate to different environment like you move from XP to Vista, like I did, I didn't have to worry about changing the settings for the projects and solutions, because, FileSystem uses an ASP.NET Virtual Server to run your project, and that server's PORT Number is configured automatically when you install .Net Framework. So better to choose localhost, do all the programming and then if you have to move to differenr OS, you just need to take copy of your localhost folder, I mean, wwwroot folder under, C:\inetpub.

Moreover, the solutions that you create always saved in your My Document->Visual Studio 2005->Projects, so make sure that you copy that too, before moving to the new OS.

AND ALWAYS, BACK UP THESE 2 FOLDERS.

I would like to use this as a tool to spread the knowledge I have while working on ASP.NET. For starters, I will be posting a series for beginners.

It will help those young developers, who needs a professional approach towards development. I will call it as a "Series For Beginners". From now on, I will post related topics about the starting the website without any hush-mush for beginners, so that they can understand the concept easily.

Hope You all will like it.

Hello to all,

This is my first blog entry ever and I am very much excited about this. So, please spend some time on my blog and see if you like something.

I hope you won't be disappointed.

Thanks.

Mohit Bhardwaj.