这两种方法有什么区别？

Question

system.net.mail.smtpclient has two methods for which I am very confused.

1 . SendAsync(MailMessage, Object)

Sends the specified e-mail message to an SMTP server for delivery. This method does not block the calling thread and allows the caller to pass an object to the method that is invoked when the operation completes. -MSDN

2 . SendMailAsync(MailMessage)

Sends the specified message to an SMTP server for delivery as an asynchronous operation. -MSDN

Notice that the names of two methods are different so it is not an overload. What exactly is the difference here?

I am looking for very clear answer as the description given by MSDN for both methods is very ambiguous (at least for me it is.)

Answer 1

The difference is one SendMailAsync uses the new async/await technology and the other uses the old callback technology. And more importantly, the Object that's passed is simply passed into the event handler as the userState when the method completes.

Answer 2

Firstly, they both work asynchronously.

However, SendAsync has existed since .NET 2. In order to maintain backwards compatiblity whilst supporting the new Tasks system SendMailAsync was added.

SendMailAsync returns a Task rather than void and allows the SmtpClient to support the new async and await functionality if required.

Answer 3

SendMailAsync是SendAsync的简单TAP包装器更多信息： SmtpClient.SendMailAsync方法线程安全吗？

Answer 4

  //SendAsync
public class MailHelper
{

    public void SendMail(string mailfrom, string mailto, string body, string subject)
    {
        MailMessage MyMail = new MailMessage();
        MyMail.From = new MailAddress(mailfrom);
        MyMail.To.Add(mailto);
        MyMail.Subject = subject;
        MyMail.IsBodyHtml = true;
        MyMail.Body = body;
        MyMail.Priority = MailPriority.Normal;

        SmtpClient smtpMailObj = new SmtpClient();
        /*Setting*/
        object userState = MyMail;
        smtpMailObj.SendCompleted += new SendCompletedEventHandler(SmtpClient_OnCompleted);
        try
        {
            smtpMailObj.SendAsync(MyMail, userState);
        }
        catch (Exception ex) { /* exception handling code here */ }
    }

    public static void SmtpClient_OnCompleted(object sender, AsyncCompletedEventArgs e)
    {
        //Get the Original MailMessage object
        MailMessage mail = (MailMessage)e.UserState;

        //write out the subject
        string subject = mail.Subject;

        if (e.Cancelled)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Send canceled for mail with subject [{0}].", subject);
        }
        if (e.Error != null)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Error {1} occurred when sending mail [{0}] ", subject, e.Error.ToString());
        }
        else
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Message [{0}] sent.", subject);
        }
    }

    //

}

//SendMailAsync
public class MailHelper
{
    //
    public async Task<bool> SendMailAsync(string mailfrom, string mailto, string body, string subject)
    {
        MailMessage MyMail = new MailMessage();
        MyMail.From = new MailAddress(mailfrom);
        MyMail.To.Add(mailto);
        MyMail.Subject = subject;
        MyMail.IsBodyHtml = true;
        MyMail.Body = body;
        MyMail.Priority = MailPriority.Normal;

        using (SmtpClient smtpMailObj = new SmtpClient())
        {
            /*Setting*/
            try
            {
                await smtpMailObj.SendMailAsync(MyMail);
                return true;
            }
            catch (Exception ex) { /* exception handling code here */ return false; }
        }
    }
}