Introduction
In this article you will learn how to send email from you WPF application using C#.Sending email from your WPF application is actually very simple.You can send email using SMTP Server that require authentication and SSL.You can use GMail's SMTP server (smtp.gmail.com) to send Email.You will also need the SMTP Server's port Number(For GMail: 587).Another thing, you are using GMail, so you need EnableSsl to be set to true, because GMail needs secure authentication to send email.I have made a Email Class (WPFEmailer.cs) that can use from both Windows Form and WPF application.I want to share it with all of you.
Using the Code
If you go through the code, you will see that i have import the System.Net.Mail namespace.The System.Net.Mail namespace contains the SmtpClient and MailMessage Classes that we need in order to send the email.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Mail;
using System.Threading;
namespace EmailSendWPF
{
/// <summary>
/// WPF Email Class
/// </summary>
class WPFEmailer
{
public string From = string.Empty;
public string To = string.Empty;
public string User = string.Empty;
public string Password = string.Empty;
public string Subject = string.Empty;
public string Body = string.Empty;
public string AttachmentPath = string.Empty;
public string Host = "127.0.0.1";
public int Port = 25;
public string CC = string.Empty;
public bool IsHtml = false;
public int SendUsing = 0;//0 = Network, 1 = PickupDirectory, 2 = SpecifiedPickupDirectory
public bool UseSSL=true;
public int AuthenticationMode=1;//0 = No authentication, 1 = Plain Text, 2 = NTLM authentication
public WPFEmailer()
{
}
public void SendEmail()
{
new Thread(new ThreadStart(SendMessage)).Start();
}
/// <summary>
/// Send Email Message method.
/// </summary>
private void SendMessage()
{
try
{
MailMessage oMessage = new MailMessage();
SmtpClient smtpClient = new SmtpClient(Host);
oMessage.From = new MailAddress(From);
oMessage.To.Add(To);
oMessage.Subject = Subject;
oMessage.IsBodyHtml = IsHtml;
oMessage.Body = Body;
if (CC != string.Empty)
oMessage.CC.Add(CC);
switch (SendUsing)
{
case 0:
smtpClient.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network;
break;
case 1:
smtpClient.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.PickupDirectoryFromIis;
break;
case 2:
smtpClient.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.SpecifiedPickupDirectory;
break;
default :
smtpClient.DeliveryMethod=SmtpDeliveryMethod.Network;
break;
}
if(AuthenticationMode > 0)
{
smtpClient.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(User,Password);
}
smtpClient.Port = Port;
smtpClient.EnableSsl = UseSSL;
// Create and add the attachment
if(AttachmentPath!=string.Empty)
{
oMessage.Attachments.Add(new Attachment(AttachmentPath));
}
try
{
// Deliver the message
smtpClient.Send(oMessage);
}
catch( Exception ex )
{
ex.ToString();
}
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
ex.ToString();
}
}
}
}
From the above WPFEmailer.cs you see that there are some property that is useful for email sending application.Using this class you can send Text or HTML email. You can attached file by specifying AttachmentPath property as the path of the attached file that you want to send with your email. You have to specify all the property like User, Password, From, To , Host (SMTP Server Name), Port (Port Number), IsHtml and UseSSL as true or false.
You can use this class in your application to send email. You can use it in both WPF and Windows application. In this article i will show you how can you use it to send email from WPF application.
Example use
I have use a WPF application to send email.The Windows Presentation Foundation (or WPF), formerly code-named Avalon, is a graphical subsystem in .NET Framework 3.0, which uses a markup language, known as XAML for rich user interface development.
The XAML code of the application is very simple but i want to share one thing with the beginner of WPF is that the TextBox doesn't have a password mode. Instead, there's a special control for this: PasswordBox.Use PasswordBox control and set PasswordChar as '*'
<Window x:Class="EmailSendWPF.Window1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="WPF Emailer" Height="300" Width="300">
<Grid>
<Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<ColumnDefinition Width="122*" />
<ColumnDefinition Width="156*" />
</Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="227*" />
<RowDefinition Height="35*" />
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<Button Name="btnSendEmail" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1" Height="23" VerticalAlignment="Top" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Width="74" Click="btnSendEmail_Click">Send Email</Button>
<StackPanel Name="stackPanel1" >
<Label Height="28" Name="label1" Width="auto" HorizontalAlignment="Right">Mail From</Label>
<Label Height="28" Name="label2" Width="auto" HorizontalAlignment="Right">Password</Label>
<Label Height="28" Name="label3" Width="auto" HorizontalAlignment="Right">Mail To</Label>
<Label Height="28" Name="label4" Width="auto" HorizontalAlignment="Right">SMTP Server Name</Label>
<Label Height="28" Name="label5" Width="auto" HorizontalAlignment="Right">SMTP Port Number</Label>
<Label Height="28" Name="label6" Width="auto" HorizontalAlignment="Right">Subject</Label>
<Label Height="28" Name="label7" Width="auto" HorizontalAlignment="Right">Body</Label>
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel Grid.Column="1" Name="stackPanel2">
<TextBox Height="20" Name="txtUserName" Width="auto" Margin="0,6,6,3" ToolTip="Example: yourmail@gmail.com" />
<PasswordBox Height="20" Name="txtPassword" Width="auto" Margin="0,3,6,3" PasswordChar="*" ToolTip="Your Password." />
<TextBox Height="20" Name="txtTo" Width="auto" Margin="0,6,6,3" ToolTip="Example: SendTo@yahoo.com" />
<TextBox Height="20" Name="txtSMTPServerName" Width="auto" Margin="0,5,6,3" ToolTip="Example: smtp.gmail.com" />
<TextBox Height="20" Name="txtSMTPPortNumber" Width="auto" Margin="0,3,6,3" ToolTip="Example: For gmail is 587" />
<TextBox Height="20" Name="txtSubject" Width="auto" Margin="0,5,6,3" ToolTip="Email Subject!" />
<TextBox Height="53" Name="txtBody" Width="auto" Margin="0,3,6,6"
TextWrapping="Wrap" ToolTip="Eamil Body Here!" />
</StackPanel>
<Button Grid.Column="1" Margin="78,0,0,0" Name="btnCancel" Grid.Row="1" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Width="74" Height="23" VerticalAlignment="Top" Click="btnCancel_Click">Cancel</Button>
</Grid>
</Window>
Use the following code to send email using WPFEmailer.cs Class.
private void btnSendEmail_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
WPFEmailer wpfEmailer = new WPFEmailer();
wpfEmailer.User = txtUserName.Text;
wpfEmailer.Password = txtPassword.Password;
wpfEmailer.From = txtUserName.Text;
wpfEmailer.To = txtTo.Text;
wpfEmailer.Host = txtSMTPServerName.Text;
wpfEmailer.Port = Convert.ToInt32(txtSMTPPortNumber.Text);
wpfEmailer.Subject = txtSubject.Text;
wpfEmailer.Body = txtBody.Text;
try
{
wpfEmailer.SendEmail();
MessageBox.Show("Message send successfully.");
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show("Error:"+ex.ToString());
}
}
You can do many things using this WPFEmailer.cs Class.
If you want to send HTML page as Email then just set the IsHtml property of the WPFEmailer.cs class as True. If you want to attach a file with the email then just attached the path of the file to the AttachmentPath property. That's all.
Isn't it easy? So enjoy sending email. If you have any question just send me email or post your comments. Thank you.