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Nothing fancy here... the code certainly isn't anything to marvel at.  The truth is that I wasn't really finished with the program when it successfully sent me a text message in the middle of the night - letting me know that BestBuy had the item in stock.  So, I'd consider this a very rough 'work in progress'.  

It is a threaded application, although I'd really have been better off with a simple background worker than managing my own thread.  But like I said, I had bigger plans for this guy.  It uses the WebClient to visit a website and determine whether or not the product is in stock or not.  When it is 'In Stock' the program sends an e-mail and a text message to my cell phone (using the Outlook interop).
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'Use Outlook to send an e-mail 
Dim OLApp As New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.Application
Dim msg As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.MailItem
 
'Create a new Mail item 
msg = OLApp.CreateItem(Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlItemType.olMailItem)
 
'Adding recipeints 
msg.Recipients.Add("[email protected]")
msg.Recipients.Add("[email protected] ")
 
'Add Subject / body 
msg.Subject = "WII!"
msg.Body = "WII AT BESTBUY.COM!!!!"
 
'Send message 
msg.Send()


Pretty straight-forward really.  The source-code is available below.
findmeawii.zip
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