A common task for developers is to store application specific configuration. There are many ways you can take to get that functionality. If you use .Net / C# you can use the simple, built-in way to work with configuration files. Let’s look how this works. Create an app.config or web.config Right click on the …
We started the migration to NUnit 3.0 as soon as the final version was released. Unfortunately, some bugs on Visual Studio Team Services ended this endeavour rather suddenly. We concentrated on shipping our product and postponed the upgrade. Now, with all our projects migrated, it is time to look back on the breaking changes that …
If you ever debugged code that had a list, you wished you could see more than the namespace and class name for the elements in that list. Today we look at one of my favourite features of OzCode to solve exactly that problem. This feature is called Reveal and is easily overlooked. Your lists normally …
A good testing strategy may reduce your bugs tremendously. However, some bugs may still slip through and can only be found on your production environment. Today we look at a great feature of OzCode to isolate problematic data to use it in regression tests. Let’s imagine you got a bug report, verified that the bug …
Good test data is as realistic as possible but isn’t from production. Leaks can happen on test systems as well and they are often less protected as production systems. Whenever you need test data you can start creating it from scratch or write a tool. Both options take time and effort. However, there is a …
Hangfire.io is a nice tool to perform background processing in .Net. Those background jobs can go from simple method calls you don’t want to block the user interface for up to recurring tasks for maintaining your application. It’s licensed under the LGPL v3 and can be used in closed source software. Should you need more …
A very helpful feature in Visual Studio 2017 is Paste Special. You can copy a XML or JSON file to the clipboard and paste a class definition that matches your file. That doesn’t sound like much but it can help you to save a lot of time – especially when your XML file has no …
No week passes by without a big announcement of stolen account data. Usernames with their corresponding passwords and email addresses are “lost” on a regular basis. This is not only a problem of small sites: LinkedIn, Adobe and MySpace alone add up to more than 600 Million leaked accounts. Given the fact that passwords are …
Sending emails with C# is straightforward. You only need a few lines of code and a bit of configuration for the mail server as described in an earlier post. Taking the effort to send an email as a base line, you could jump to the conclusion that it shouldn’t be a problem to display your …
Sending emails in C# is a simple task. All you need is a MailMessage object with your email and a SmtpClient to send it:
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var message = "your message goes here"; // create the email var mailMessage = new MailMessage(); mailMessage.To.Add(toAddress); mailMessage.Subject = "Sending emails is easy"; mailMessage.From = new MailAddress(fromAddress); mailMessage.Body = message; // send it (settings in web.config / app.config) var smtp = new SmtpClient(); smtp.Send(mailMessage); |
The configuration for the SmtpClient is inside the web.config or app.config can look like this example from Sanjay kumar:
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<configuration> <system.net> <mailSettings> <network host="smtp.gmail.com" port="587" password="yourpassword" enableSsl="true"/> </smtp> </mailSettings> </system.net> </configuration> |
Whenever your code is executed, your email will be sent …