Blogging is supposed to be a soap box, right? Lately, I have encountered a shockingly awful lack of simple and direct advice for any level of VB.NET programmer wishing to embark on a programming task that they have never done. You can be the world's top clustered server farm engineer yet have never attempted to email a simple message from .NET. Even with skills and knowledge of that level, you won't figure out how to do it on your own and it would be mightily helpful if direct, concise examples existed with extremely simplifed code.
In the last few months, I have lived the misery of this conundrum. I have been developing a medium-scale application that merely touches on various wide-ranging features. I try to find simple advice and answers on say, sending a very simple SMTP email message, and all I can find are examples on how to write your own version of Outlook with mountains of code to boot. All I needed was to send a message......
Necessity is the mother of invention, so I am committing these findings to writing - hopefully to spare someone else the same fruitless search.
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