Progress Bar With Send Mail

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Hello Friends ;
i want to show progress bar while i sent mail using this code

C#

MailMessage mail=new MailMessage(from,to,subject,body);
                    SmtpClient client=new SmtpClient(smtp);
                    client.Port = 587;
                    client.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(from, pass);
                    client.EnableSsl = true;
                    client.Send(mail);
                    MessageBox.Show("Done","Succ",MessageBoxButton.OK);

please help
Thanks;

Posted 29-Jun-13 22:09pm

Rabee3-F1.787545

Updated 29-Jun-13 23:03pm

Maciej Los

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Richard MacCutchan 30-Jun-13 4:11am

Given how quickly those statements will execute it will probably not show on the screen.

Nitesh Kejriwal 30-Jun-13 4:51am

You do not have any control on what stage the mail is while being sent . Hence, even if you put a progress bar, it wont show much impact. If you want to send multiple emails showing progress bar, it make sense.

Mike Meinz 30-Jun-13 7:38am

There are no Callbacks from any of the above methods that you could use to update a progress bar. If you really wanted to do a progress bar, you would have to put a line of code in between each of the lines above to update the progress bar by some amount.

Example:

DisplayProgressBar();
MailMessage mail=new MailMessage(from,to,subject,body);
UpdateProgressBar(15);
SmtpClient client=new SmtpClient(smtp);
UpdateProgressBar(30);
client.Port = 587;
UpdateProgressBar(45);
client.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(from, pass);
UpdateProgressBar(60);
client.EnableSsl = true;
UpdateProgressBar(75);
client.Send(mail);
UpdateProgressBar(100);

That said, the progress bar will advance so fast that it may not be worth it. How about just change the mouse pointer to an hourglass at the beginning and back to default at the end?

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Praveen Kumar Katiyar · Answer 1 · 2013-06-30T05:00:00

or Just Send Mail Asynchronous using SendAsync method instead of Send method of SmtpClient

so that control returns immediately.

Display a ProgressBar,
with Style=Marquee,

Handle the SendCompleted event.

and Hide the ProgressBar control (or whatever) in this event, when mail sending is complete.

this will not show the progress of current mail, but at least better than just waiting for its completion.

-praveen.