Send Email with Progress Monitoring

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VB.NET source code to send email with progress monitoring.

    ' If we want to use events, we must declare the mailman as a member of the class.
    Private WithEvents mailman As New Chilkat.MailMan()

    Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click

        mailman.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")

        ' We need to enable events to get the callbacks...
        mailman.EnableEvents = True

        mailman.SmtpHost = "smtp.comcast.net"

        Dim email As New Chilkat.Email
        email.AddTo("Chilkat Support", "support@chilkatsoft.com")
        email.From = "Matt Fausey <fausey@chilkatsoft.com>"

        email.Subject = "This is a test"
        email.SetHtmlBody("<html><body><h1>This is a test</h1><p>Hello World!</p></body></html>")

        ' Add a file attachment so we have something more significant to send
        ' and we'll be able to see the progress bar...
        email.AddFileAttachment("dude.gif")
        email.AddFileAttachment("dude2.gif")

        Dim success As Boolean
        success = mailman.SendEmail(email)

        If (Not success) Then
            MessageBox.Show(mailman.LastErrorText)
        End If

    End Sub

    ' This is the event callback...
    Private Sub mailman_OnSendPercentDone(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal args As Chilkat.MailPercentDoneEventArgs) Handles mailman.OnSendPercentDone
        ' args.PercentDone is an integer value indicating the percent done (1 to 100)
        ProgressBar1.Value = args.PercentDone
    End Sub

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