How to Create a Simple Email Sending Application in VB.NET

We can easily send email's using the SMTP(Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) in visual basic. so to make this topic more familiar i have decided to make a tutorial on creating a simple email client/application using vb.net which allow us to send email's in our windows form application.

Lets start by designing the GUI of our Email Application



Design a form as shown in above picture
Add three labels and textboxes and name them:
Label1 - To
Label2 - Subject
Label3 - Body
also add a button and change its text to Send
Now double click the Send button and paste the code given below:
Dim MyMailMessage As New MailMessage()<br/> Try<br/> MyMailMessage.From = New MailAddress("youremail")<br/> MyMailMessage.To.Add(TextBox1.Text)<br/> MyMailMessage.Subject = TextBox2.Text<br/> MyMailMessage.Body = TextBox3.Text<br/> Dim SMTP As New SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com")<br/> SMTP.Port = 587<br/> SMTP.EnableSsl = True<br/> SMTP.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential("youremail", "yourpassword")<br/> SMTP.Send(MyMailMessage)<br/> MsgBox("Your Mail has been Successfully sent")<br/> TextBox1.Clear()<br/> TextBox2.Clear()<br/> TextBox3.Clear()<br/> TextBox1.Focus()<br/> Catch ex As Exception<br/> MsgBox(ex.ToString)<br/> End Try <br/>

Note: you need to import the following namespace:
Imports System.Net.Mail

Also change youremail to your email id(gmail one) & your password to your password

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