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Many ways to get your application path

// The following returns the application executable path with exe name Console.WriteLine(System.Environment.CommandLine); // or Console.WriteLine(System.Windows.Forms.Application.ExecutablePath); // or Console.WriteLine(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location); // The following returns just the application executable path Console.WriteLine(System.Environment.CurrentDirectory); // or Console.WriteLine(System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()); // or Console.WriteLine(System.Windows.Forms.Application.StartupPath); // or Console.WriteLine(System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory); // or Console.WriteLine(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase);

Send Email programmatically using your Gmail account

protected void btnSendEmail_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { // Create Mail Message Object with content that you want to send with mail. System.Net.Mail.MailMessage MyMailMessage = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage("dotnetguts@gmail.com","myfriend@yahoo.com", "This is the mail subject", "Just wanted to say Hello"); MyMailMessage.IsBodyHtml = false; // Proper Authentication Details need to be passed when sending email from gmail System.Net.NetworkCredential mailAuthentication = new System.Net.NetworkCredential("dotnetguts@gmail.com", "myPassword"); // Smtp Mail server of Gmail is "smpt.gmail.com" and it uses port no. 587 // For different server like yahoo this details changes and you can // Get it from respective server. System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient mailClient = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com",587); // Enable SSL mailClient.EnableSsl = true; mailClient.Us