Sending emails in C# is easy; for basic use cases you don’t need external resources to send a note because .NET BCL already ships it. On .Net Developer Center, there’s a short description how to do it.
Now, how to fetch the email? It turns out it is not that easy – it’s not supported by .Net BCL. I spent a while researching for the best library that matched my purposes and I want to share my views on a couple of components I looked at.
Note: Please bear in mind I was interested only in a small piece of functionality such library could provide. My need was only to fetch an email (in plain text) with attachments. That was supposed to be done via POP3. I was not really interested in features like advanced sending emails (e.g. email templates), request and delivery receipts, support for iCalendar, email in HTML, etc. To sum up, I did not test libraries from that angle and therefore this comparison will not suit needs of all developers.
I’m going to Microsoft Technology Summit (MTS) 2009 which takes place in Warsaw, Poland on September 29th-30th. This is the biggest Microsoft (.NET, SQL Server, Windows platform) related conference that takes place in Poland.
This will be the first time for me. I’ve never been to this conference but heard it’s decent – good speakers, lots of information is passed, highly developing. We’ll see how it will be but I expect to get back home overwhelmed with new knowledge, both theoretical and practical.
Is anyone of you, readers of this blog, attending this conference too?
C2C is a history now. I attended .NET stream and one session on SQL. The conference as a whole was very interesting, well organised, and basically developing. It was a Polish conference so most sessions were conducted in Polish but there were a couple of speakers from abroad too, and they spoke in English.
Basically I’m happy I had a chance to attend the conference. Below are my notes and comments. Please note they are my comments; should I write something which is not true or accurate, please let me know, sometimes pace was fast so I might have skipped something Continue reading ‘Summary of Communities to Communities (C2C) 2009 Conference’
It’s possible to have more than one ASP.NET IIS installed and registrated on one machine (that runs Windows).
To check which version is currently registered run Command Line (Start/Run… and type ‘cmd’) and go to %SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\vXXX directory where %SystemRoot% is a special system-wide environment variable found on Microsoft Windows NT and its derivatives (read more on Wikipedia) and vXXX is the directory with ASP.NET IIS files.
Being in that directory, type aspnet_regiis -lv. You will be then given the list of installed/registered versions of ASP.NET IIS.
To register a new version of ASP.NET IIS, go to its direcotry in %SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework (using Command Line) and run the following command: aspnet_regiis -i.
To unregister a new version of ASP.NET IIS, go to its direcotry in %SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework (using Command Line) and run the following command: aspnet_regiis -u.
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