Error occurred in deployment step ‘Recycle IIS Application Pool’: Cannot connect to the SharePoint site: http://localhost/. Make sure that this is a v

Visual studio uses the following process to deploy your solution: vssphost4.exe
Open your task manager and find the process in the list; take a note of the User Name under which this process is running, let’s say it’s myadmin_account

Now, open your SQL Management Studio and ensure this Username is added as a DBOWNER to the following databases:

SharePoint_Config
SharePoint_AdminContent_[guid]
SharePoint Site Content DB

sql permissions

Close and Open your Visual Studio again, this will ensure the service is recycled; this should fix above deployment error. If you’re still having same issue, End the process in taskmanager and then re-start VS 2010.

Good luck!

Sending mail using Sharepoint

string smtpServer = SPAdministrationWebApplication.Local.OutboundMailServiceInstance.Server.Address;
string smtpFrom = SPAdministrationWebApplication.Local.OutboundMailSenderAddress;
MailMessage message = new MailMessage(smtpFrom, "test@gmail.com");
//MailMessage message = new MailMessage(smtpFrom, "test@gmail.com");
message.Subject = "Happy Birthday";
WebClient client = new WebClient();
client.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;

string imagePath = web.Url + "/_layouts/images/BirthdayImage.gif";
LinkedResource image1 = new LinkedResource(SPUtility.GetGenericSetupPath("TEMPLATE\\LAYOUTS\\IMAGES\\BirthdayImage.gif"));
image1.ContentId = "birthdayimage";
AlternateView avHtml = AlternateView.CreateAlternateViewFromString("
" + "Have a blast with frineds and family!!! Have a great day!!!", null, MediaTypeNames.Text.Html);
avHtml.LinkedResources.Add(image1);
message.AlternateViews.Add(avHtml);
message.IsBodyHtml = true;

SmtpClient smtpClient = new SmtpClient(smtpServer);
smtpClient.Send(message);

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