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09Apr EmailFromCmd - Command-line C# email sender - Updated!

A couple of days ago I posted about EmailFromCmd, a small command-line email utility I wrote in C# to send email.

07Apr EmailFromCmd - Command-line C# email sender

Recently I had a situation where I needed to write a small util for sending email from the command-line. For those of you familiar with EMC Networker (which I talk about in this post) you’ll know that to send email alerts on Windows systems you have to use a 3rd party application or [...]

29Mar How to make a full-screen Windows app using VB.NET

Recently I had to write a Windows application that required the main form to run in full-screen mode. This means no title bar and with the window appearance above everything else, i.e. Start Button, taskbar, system tray and all other apps.

28Mar Navigating through XML files using VB.NET and XPath

More and more applications these days, both web and Windows, are using XML files as an effective method of storing data. XML files are both easy to manage and simple to implement. However, there are several different ways of opening and reading/navigating through them.

22Mar Developer “dumbness”

Hmmm. Was looking at a basic console app a few minutes ago that had to reference image files on a file system (local C: in this case).