From my VB 2005 express Form. Want to send EMail

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I have made form for E-Mail. I have entered code but the Import system does
not work. It has squiggly line underneath it showing it is not communicating.
It Will not build.

Public Class Form3Bio1
System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient
Imports System.Net.Mail ' This line before ' does not work.
I have the rest of code to try if and when I am able to get System working.

' I XXX out certain entrys below just for this publication.

Dim emailSender As SmtpClient
Dim theMessage As MailMessage
Dim SHost As String = ("smtp.XXXXX.com")
Dim Passwd As String = ("Harold45")
Dim Recv As String = ("(e-mail address removed)")
Dim Sndr As String = ("(e-mail address removed)")
Dim Body As String = (Form4Bio1.TextBox5.Text) +
(Form4Bio1.ListBox1.Items)
emailSender = New System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient( _
SHost)

theMessage = New MailMessage
theMessage.From = New MailAddress(Sndr)
theMessage.To.Add(Recv)
theMessage.Subject = (Form4Bio1.TextBox4.Text)
theMessage.password = (Passwd)
theMessage.Body = (Form4Bio1.TextBox5.Text) +
(Form4Bio1.ListBox1.Items)

I have tried Importing the System.Net.Mail but can't find it. I have .Net
2.0 installed.
My form system just does not allow System nor recognize the System.Net
Thanks for your kind help in advance. I do not know how I can get my code to
recognize Imports.System.Net.Mail.
 
Yes RobinS.. It worked. Thank You, Thank You.
I put the Imports line above the Public Class statement just like you said.
I sent three e-mails as planned and Its the very first time I saw that program
work as I planned. Wow! I never knew that before. It Build fine. No errors.
I just saw one little problem I am trying to send the contents of the
TextBox.Text.
It went okay but I also wanted to add one more ListBox.Items to send also.
The + between the two did not work. How can I add the TextBox.Text plus the
ListBox.Items to go in the e-mail? Thanks.
--
Professor Yonce, Retired commercial pilot. Also retired college department
Director and Professor. Presently a Communications Consultant and Developer.


RobinS said:
The imports have to be above the Public Class statement.
Does that help?

Robin S.
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You have to use the selected item(s) in the item list. You're trying to
concatenate a Listbox.ObjectCollection to a string.

(And although + works, in VB most people use & so there's no
doubt about what it's doing.)

I think you should check and make sure they have selected items
before using the SelectedItem. I would try the following, which should
work whether they can select 1 item or many.

I'd use a stringbuilder to build the string, for efficiency.

Dim sb as StringBuilder
sb.Append Form4Bio1.TextBox5.Text
If Form4Bio1.Listbox1.ItemsSelected.Count > 0 Then
For Each ListItem as Object in Form4Bio1.ListBox1.SelectedItems
sb.Append ", "
sb.Append ListItem.ToString
Next
End If
theMessage.Body = sb.ToString
sb = Nothing

You could append a carriage-return linefeed between
the items if you wanted to. Just replace the "," with ControlChars.CrLf.

Robin S.
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Thank you again RobinS. It makes sense what you are saying. I put your
suggestion in my code. I kept getting a squiggly line under the word
StringBuilder until I placed Imports.System.text at the top where I put the
other Imports.
Now I get a squiggly line under the first usage of If Form4Bio1.ListBox3.
I get one more squiggly line underneath theMessage.Body
I have not solved that yet. The reason I want to Append the two is I have
all the Drives listed in the ListBox. A:\ C:\ D:\ E:\ and F:\
 
I'm glad I could help. If you hold your mouse over the entry
with the squiggly line under it, it will show a tooltip telling you
why it's got the squiggly line under it. I might have mis-typed
the name of the field, so make sure it's the right one.

Also, be sure you have Option Strict On and Option Explicit On;
this will help make sure you don't do any un-meant conversions,
and that all variables are defined.

To do this after your project is set up, open the project properties
(double-click on My Project) and then go to the Compile tab.

To set this permanently for all future projects, go to
Tools/Options/Project Solutions/VB Defaults and change it there.

Let us know if you have any other q's.

Robin S.
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Thank you RobinS. I tried your suggestions but can't get it to work yet.
I was getting a squiggly line below the StringBuilder word until I placed
another
Imports above .. Imports.System.Text Then the next squiggly line
showed up
under If Form4Bio1.ListBox3 I can't get rid of it yet. I have one more
squiggly line underneath theMessage I am still trying but don't see the
problem yet. thanks.
 
Hi RobinS I tried several things. I have a ListBox on the local form. I
switched to it.
Her is my current code listing. I was able to get rid of all squiggly lines
except one.
It was theMessage saying it had not been defined so I put a Dim statement in.
But I must have it representing a wrong type cause I still get the one
squiggle line.
Either on theMessage or the Dim. Thanks. If you see my problem please let
me know. Right now, My squiggly line says the theMessage.Body is not a member
of the dataObject.
 
I forgot to give you the listing.
Dim sb As StringBuilder
Dim theMessage As DataObject
'Dim objSB As New Text.StringBuilder
sb.Append(Form4Bio1.TextBox5.Text)
'If Form4Bio1.ListBox1.ItemsSelected.Count > 0 Then
If ListBox2.Items.Count > 0 Then
For Each ListItem As Object In ListBox2.SelectedItems
sb.Append(", ")
sb.Append(ListItem.ToString)
Next
End If
'theMessage. = sb.ToString
theMessage.body = sb.ToString
sb = Nothing
Form4Bio1.TextBox5.Text = Form4Bio1.TextBox5.Text & vbCrLf

'You could append a carriage-return linefeed between
'the items if you wanted to. Just replace the "," with
ControlChars.CrLf.
'Robin S.
 
Just define theMessage as Object. What is it really, though? Is it an
Outlook component,
i.e. the body of the message? If so, you need to figure out what to define
it as, like
some kind of Outlook.Item or something like that? You can try "Object" and
see if
it works. Everything in .Net if an object, so that should work for most
anything, although
it's better to use something more specific.

Robin S.
---------------------------------------
 
Thanks RobinS, I changed the Dim to Object and now get an Exception Null not
handled by : sb.Append(Form4Bio1.TextBox5.Text).
I must leave for the day and go do some Inspections. Will try again tonight
when I return. I am an Inspector parttime. Thanks again.
 
The place where it gives me my first squiggly line is:
theMessage.body = sb.ToString
The place that fails when I try to run program now is:
sb.Append(Form4Bio1.TextBox5.Text) It causes an Exceptionnothandled problem.

RobinS, I am trying to include the PC's Drives list in my E-Mail.
I never could find a routine that allowed me to place the Drives on a PC to
a Text box. I had to use a ListBox to place them. Now I want to send the
E-Mail with
the PC's info I gathered in the TextBox and append the Drive list which is
in the ListBox. That explains why I am trying to send E-Mail with PC info. I
was a few years ago a Technical Support Engineer for Novell Network Systems.
We sure needed this program I am making now that sends us an E-Mail with all
the PC info several years ago. I still have buddies working in that same
field and want to give it to them to use to make their job more accurate and
helpful. You helped me to solve the sending of E-Mails. That works perfect
now. It is just the content of that E-Mail that I am trying to make better
and work. Thanks again. I am having one other problem in the same E-Mail
alert program other than the Notice of what PC Drives ar installed. It is a
sub-directory of programs and files on a CD-Rom that I want to copy over from
the Cd-Rom to their C:\ Harddrive. It worked once when the Sub Directory was
empty. But now it won't work if I want to do it later to update a file for
the potential customer. Here is my listing of copydirectory. It gives me an
error exception now. I even tried eraseing the Sub-Directory and it still
gave me an exception error.

'Dim SourceDirectoryName As String = ("D:\RAutoBio")
'Dim DestinationDirectoryName As String = ("C:\RAutoBio")
My.Computer.FileSystem.CopyDirectory("D:\RAutoBio", _
"C:\RAutoBio", True)
ProgressBar1.Show()
Form4Bio1.TextBox5.Text = Form4Bio1.TextBox5.Text & vbCrLf & ("
Copying Files in progress. ")
'showUI [, onUserCancel]))
'My.Computer.FileSystem.AllDialogs()
'showUI [, onUserCancel])
'showUI [, onUserCancel])

RobinS, The surprising thing about my above program is that it gives me the
exception error but goes ahead and copies the entire Cd-Rom sub-directory to
the C:\ drive. right where I want it. I erased all files and I did it again
and it worked
except I never saw a progress bar. Only the exception error. Thanks. I
have another button that checkes for the existance of my needed SubDirectory.
It works good. I also have still another button that will generate the
Sub-Directory if one does not exist. Thanks Professor Yonce..
 
Again, I ask: what is "theMessage" ? Are you using Outlook automation
to send the e-mail? Or what? You need to define this to be what it is.
So if it's a part of outlook, it needs to be defined as (for example)
Outlook.Item.Body (or whatever it is).

You can get the PC's drive list by using DirectoryInfo. Just FYI.

What is the error you're getting on the Copy routine?

The progress bar won't change unless you change it. If you
are doing the Copy of the files in one command, you can't
change the progress bar. I would recommend changing
the mouse cursor to the hourglass if you're not already
doing that, so the user knows something is happening.

Robin S.
---------------------------------

Professor Yonce said:
The place where it gives me my first squiggly line is:
theMessage.body = sb.ToString
The place that fails when I try to run program now is:
sb.Append(Form4Bio1.TextBox5.Text) It causes an Exceptionnothandled
problem.

RobinS, I am trying to include the PC's Drives list in my E-Mail.
I never could find a routine that allowed me to place the Drives on a PC
to
a Text box. I had to use a ListBox to place them. Now I want to send the
E-Mail with
the PC's info I gathered in the TextBox and append the Drive list which is
in the ListBox. That explains why I am trying to send E-Mail with PC info.
I
was a few years ago a Technical Support Engineer for Novell Network
Systems.
We sure needed this program I am making now that sends us an E-Mail with
all
the PC info several years ago. I still have buddies working in that same
field and want to give it to them to use to make their job more accurate
and
helpful. You helped me to solve the sending of E-Mails. That works perfect
now. It is just the content of that E-Mail that I am trying to make better
and work. Thanks again. I am having one other problem in the same E-Mail
alert program other than the Notice of what PC Drives ar installed. It is
a
sub-directory of programs and files on a CD-Rom that I want to copy over
from
the Cd-Rom to their C:\ Harddrive. It worked once when the Sub Directory
was
empty. But now it won't work if I want to do it later to update a file for
the potential customer. Here is my listing of copydirectory. It gives me
an
error exception now. I even tried eraseing the Sub-Directory and it still
gave me an exception error.

'Dim SourceDirectoryName As String = ("D:\RAutoBio")
'Dim DestinationDirectoryName As String = ("C:\RAutoBio")
My.Computer.FileSystem.CopyDirectory("D:\RAutoBio", _
"C:\RAutoBio", True)
ProgressBar1.Show()
Form4Bio1.TextBox5.Text = Form4Bio1.TextBox5.Text & vbCrLf & ("
Copying Files in progress. ")
'showUI [, onUserCancel]))
'My.Computer.FileSystem.AllDialogs()
'showUI [, onUserCancel])
'showUI [, onUserCancel])

RobinS, The surprising thing about my above program is that it gives me
the
exception error but goes ahead and copies the entire Cd-Rom sub-directory
to
the C:\ drive. right where I want it. I erased all files and I did it
again
and it worked
except I never saw a progress bar. Only the exception error. Thanks. I
have another button that checkes for the existance of my needed
SubDirectory.
It works good. I also have still another button that will generate the
Sub-Directory if one does not exist. Thanks Professor Yonce..

--
Professor Yonce, Retired commercial pilot. Also retired college department
Director and Professor. Presently a Communications Consultant and
Developer.


RobinS said:
But what is it ? What *is* "theMessage" ?

Robin S.
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