How do I send email using .NET

There is a nice and free SMTP component available from Quiksoft. You can read more on this here. Also, check out this article on Codeproject: SMTP article on Codeproject

How do I display adjacent text

Check out this article by David C. Brown of the Windows Forms team at windowsforms.net. It discusses several reasons why you GDI+ output may lok differently that GDI output. One of the topics discussed is how to draw adjacent text.