Intro, VB problem, OpenGL problem

I can program, or at least attempt to program, in two languages- Visual Basic and OpenGL. My first programming language was Visual Basic, which I studied for a few years before moving on to OpenGL- which I just started about 4 months previously.

My current problem is in Visual Basic. I need to find a way to send e-mails without using Outlook Express nor an ActiveX control. I have just asked on the forum and I'll soon see if they have any suggestions. I need the solution to this so that I can add an e-mailing function to my web site, which I am currently in the middle of programming in Visual Basic (a DHTML project, eventually to be compiled into a .htm page file). These files don't seem to take up as much room as I'd thought. The reason I don't want to use ActiveX control is in the case that the user of the web site won't have the .ocx file and therefor will not be able to send the e-mail. Or will they? I've just asked on the forum. Soon find out...

My other problem is with OpenGL. I've just finished the book I was learning from and it gave me lots of source code examples of individual things you can do with the language (a chapter on sound, a chapter on quadratics etc.) and therefor when I came to the last example in the book, everything was all rolled into one project and all the code was split into separate .cpp and .h files and so I am now lost. I know how to implement sound, and I know how to implement quadratic shapes but I don't know how do it all in the same project file with the code split up. I'll just keep looking for examples of code in OpenGL that's split and hopefully I'll get the hang of it. I think I'll just carry on with my Visual Basic web page for now...