One of the pretty common things you might need to do in a SharePoint application is to send an email.  Since SharePoint has SMTP already configured this becomes pretty simple via the leveraging of the SharePoint Utilities API.  These utility...

I recently had the pleasure of writing a SharePoint workflow and leveraging the SPMetal Tool to generate some classes for my lists and content types for which the workflow would run against.  SPMetal, if you a have not played with it, is a very cool...