Hello friends! In this tutorial, we will create a small Visual Basic application that sends an email when you click a button. We will begin with a fixed recipient, subject and message so that you can understand the complete sending process before adding more controls. This is the first part of our Visual Studio 2010 email series. In part two, Sending Email in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 , we will let the user enter the recipient, subject and message in a Windows Forms interface. Here, our main concern is understanding the mail settings and building a clear first example. The original tutorial used a Gmail account password directly in the source code. That is no longer a suitable general instruction. We will keep the original Visual Basic teaching flow, explain which parts are legacy, and ...