Ok, I give up... I need help with sending email via the Contact form developed in ch. 3.

Hope it's ok that I resurrect this old topic.

During my last attempt at theBeerHouse (.NET 2.0) it worked fine.

Now I picked up the project again, this time using .NET 3.5, the code is exactly the same, but it doesn't work.

I don't receive any errormessages, the mail just doesn't get sent. The exception catches it. Unfortunately, I'm no debugging hero

Since the last time I worked on this project, I re-installed win XP. I installed IIS after the .NET framework, which meant that IIS didn't work.

I ran a repair on the framework in "add remove programs", and it worked fine again.

But I can't send any email, and I just can't figure out why. SMTP is installed, the settings for the virtual smtp client in IIS is set up (relay etc.),

and I have tried different setting for this with no luck.

My web config code for mail is as follows:

<system.net>
   <mailSettings>
     <smtp deliveryMethod="PickupDirectoryFromIis" from="[email protected]">
    <network defaultCredentials="true" host="(localhost)" port="25"/>
     </smtp>
    </mailSettings>
</system.net>

The code in Contact.aspx.cs is exactly as in the book...

Anyone else with these issues?

What is the exception that is being caught?

All the code in my Contact.aspx.cs is identical to the code in the book, I didn't make any changes to it.

catch (Exception)
        {
            lblFeedbackOK.Visible = false;
            lblFeedbackBad.Visible = true;
        }

So, you are getting the FeedbackBad message then?

What I would do is change this to something that will help us debug this easier:

catch (Exception ex)
{
   lblFeedbackOK.Visible = false;
   lblFeedbackBad.Visible = true;
   lblFeedbackBad.Text = ex.Message;
}

Even better, place a breakpoint somewhere in this catch block, and examine the ex you are getting.

Basically, you need to find out exactly what the exception is before you can solve the issue.

IF, on the other hand, you are getting the FeedbackOK message, then we can be assured that your code is good. Let us know if that is the case, then we can try something else.

Hey Lee, thanks for kicking me in the right direction...

I started playing around with the debugger, and set some breakpoints as you suggested. Then I started getting some interesting errormessages.

There was an error with type initializing in the Globals class, and an error in web config: "not able to load type MB.TheBeerHouse.TheBeerHouseSection, __code"

First I thought I had made a mess with my namespaces, but then I noticed that I missed the comma right before "__code" in web config where you register the configsection class.

One comma, and the whole thing goes down the toilet...:D

I need to use the debugger more, it's quite an effective tool...

Thanks for your help :)

Actually, I don't think you even need that "__code" part any more with the 3.5 compiler...

Ok, I didn't know that. I'll experiment a little with that later.

So much to learn, so little time :D

Thanks...