> Try string (lower case) rather than String (leading cap).
>
> public string sendMail()
>
> String (leading cap) is a .Net system class:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string.aspx
>
> string (lower case) is a simple text string:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/362314fe.aspx
>
> Isn't .Net fun?
>
> <Aron Cox> wrote in message
> > news:48738c23.6263.1681692777@sybase.com... Hi, I need
> > to call a .NET assembly from PB 10.5. I found Bruce
> > Armstrong's SMTP example on Codexhange, downloaded it
> and it worked, I can send emails via SMTP in .NET, great.
> > > However I did a simple thing, changed the 'public
> > void' to a 'public String' and returned a string after
> > sending the email. I am unable to get that to work, and
> > in fact can't get any data back in this way or by
> > querying the objects, i.e. 'ls_var = ole_obj.var1' even
> > though I can set them (lole_smtp.var1 = "xyz") fine. I
> > can set data but not get it.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas as to whether this is
> > possible, and if it is what I'm doing wrong? Here's my
> code: >
> > .NET Code ===>
> > using System;
> > using System.Collections.Generic;
> > using System.Text;
> > using System.Net.Mail;
> >
> > namespace DotNetSMTP
> > {
> >    public class DotNetSMTP
> >    {
> >        private String senderName;
> >
> >        public String SenderName
> >        {
> >            get { return senderName; }
> >            set { senderName = value; }
> >        }
> >        private String senderEmail;
> >        public String SenderEmail
> >        {
> >            get { return senderEmail; }
> >            set { senderEmail = value; }
> >        }
> >        private String smtpServer;
> >        public String SmtpServer
> >        {
> >            get { return smtpServer; }
> >            set { smtpServer = value; }
> >        }
> >        private String recipientEmail;
> >        public String RecipientEmail
> >        {
> >            get { return recipientEmail; }
> >            set { recipientEmail = value; }
> >        }
> >        private String subject;
> >        public String Subject
> >        {
> >            get { return subject; }
> >            set { subject = value; }
> >        }
> >        private String ccEmail = "";
> >        public String CcEmail
> >        {
> >            get { return ccEmail; }
> >            set { ccEmail = value; }
> >        }
> >        private String bccEmail = "";
> >        public String BccEmail
> >        {
> >            get { return bccEmail; }
> >            set { bccEmail = value; }
> >        }
> >        private bool isHTML = false;
> >        public bool IsHTML
> >        {
> >            get { return isHTML; }
> >            set { isHTML = value; }
> >        }
> >        private String messageText;
> >        public String MessageText
> >        {
> >            get { return messageText; }
> >            set { messageText = value; }
> >        }
> >        public String sendMail()
> >        {
> >            SmtpClient smtpClient = new SmtpClient();
> >            MailMessage message = new MailMessage();
> >
> >            MailAddress fromAddress = new
> > MailAddress(senderEmail, senderName);
> >            smtpClient.Host = smtpServer;
> >            smtpClient.Port = 25;
> >            message.From = fromAddress;
> >            message.To.Add(recipientEmail);
> >            message.Subject = subject;
> >            if (!ccEmail.Equals(""))
> >            {
> >                message.CC.Add(ccEmail);
> >            }
> >            if (!bccEmail.Equals(""))
> >            {
> >                message.Bcc.Add(ccEmail);
> >            }
> >            message.IsBodyHtml = isHTML;
> >            message.Body = messageText;
> >
> >            System.Net.NetworkCredential
> > basicAuthentication = new
> > System.Net.NetworkCredential("<mylogin>",
> >            "<mypassword>");
> >            smtpClient.UseDefaultCredentials = false;
> smtpClient.Credentials = basicAuthentication; >
> >            smtpClient.Send(message);
> >
> >            return "Hooray";
> >
> >        }
> >    }
> > }
> >
> >
> > PB Code ==>
> >
> > ls_string = lole_smtp.SendMail()
> >
> > Error message ==>
> > Fails with 'Cannot convert string in any variable to
> > string' (something like that anyway).
>
>