Coding Soutions

Sending e-mails with ASP.NET is pretty straight forward. The .NET framework comes with an entire namespace for handling e-mails, the System.Net.Mail namespace. In the following examples, we will use two classes from this namespace: The MailMessage class, for the actual e-mail, and the SmtpClient class, for sending the e-mail. As you may be aware, mails are sent through an SMTP server, and to send mails with the .NET framework, you will need access to an SMTP server. If you're testing things locally, the company that supplies your with Internet access, will usually have an SMTP server that you can use, and if you wish to use one of these examples on your actual website, the company that hosts your website will usually have an SMTP server that you can use. Go through the support pages to find the actual address - it's usually something along the lines of smtp.your-isp.com or mail.your-isp.com. Once you have an accessible SMTP server, we're ready to send our very first e-...

Anybody can write code. With a few months of programming experience, you can write 'working applications'. Making it work is easy, but doing it the right way requires more work, than just making it work. Introduction Believe it, majority of the programmers write 'working code', but not ‘good code'. Writing 'good code' is an art and you must learn and practice it.Everyone may have different definitions for the term ‘good code’. In my definition, the following are the characteristics of good code.  · Reliable  · Maintainable  · Efficient Most of the developers are inclined towards writing code for higher performance, compromising reliability and maintainability. But considering the long term ROI (Return on Investment), efficiency and performance comes below reliability and maintainability. If your code is not reliable and maintainable, you (and your company) will be spending lot of time to identify issues, trying to und...