mstehle: The CDOs and CDONTS of Messaging Development : System.Web.Mail

KB: You receive an error message when you try to send an e-mail message by using the System.Web.Mail namespace in the .NET Framework

mstehle — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:25:00 GMT

We have an article published now which addresses my earlier post about the myths regarding SmtpServer.Insert...

922777 You receive an error message when you try to send an e-mail message by using the System.Web.Mail namespace in the .NET Framework 1.0
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;922777

OT: Proper Pronunciation of CDONTS...

mstehle — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:38:00 GMT

FYI IMO there a lot of TLA's out there these days. Some acronyms get pronounced phonetically like ISAPI ("eye-sap-ee") and MAPI ("map-ee") while others are enunciated simply by reading the letters like ESM ("E-S-M") and NTFS ("N-T-F-S"). Usually the presence of vowels in acronyms or resemblance to an actual word determines this. However there are some cases where a precedent forbids this rule...

Let's look at CDONTS. I humorously use it in the title of this blog as a play on one of the common mispronunciations. Obviously CDO is pronounced by reading the letters ("C-D-O") and CDONTS is known as CDO for NT Server or CDONTS ("C-D-O-N-T-S"). Pronouncing each letter here keeps its association with CDO in tact. Unfortunately CDONTS looks a lot like "C-don'ts" or the most unfortunate pronunciation, "C-donuts"...

As a support professional that is still relatively new to this gig, I recognized CDONTS as "C-D-O-N-T-S". You can imagine my confusion when I got my first "C-DONUTS" case, haha...

Oh and BTW, CDOSYS is half and half of course, just to keep it interesting, "C-D-O-sis"...

FYI: System.Web.Mail is deprecated use System.Net.Mail

mstehle — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 18:22:00 GMT

While we are on the topic of System.Web.Mail, it is important to note a new namespace in version 2.0 of the .NET Framework. There is a brand new namespace for sending mail via managed code, it is called System.Net.Mail. Have no fear, System.Web.Mail is still accessible in v2.0 but it is deprecated. (Which means v2.0 won't break your code but you should strongly consider using System.Net.Mail in new development.) The documentation for System.Web.Mail is updated to reflect this.

This is more than an annoying namespace change. This is a reimplementation of the mail objects in .NET in order to seperate System.Net.Mail completely from CDOSYS therefore making it a completely managed solution. In the coming weeks I hope to investigate these new objects further, creating or linking to how-to's, and making sure to point out the major differences between the old and new objects.

...A great improvement of SNM over SWM is that there is not COM interop involved which should greatly improve performance. Additionally, SWM was merely a wrapper for CDOSYS and only exposed limited functionality available in CDOSYS. SNM is a complete implementation, I look forward to illustrating how to do things in SNM that weren't exposed by SWM. Stay tuned...

MYTH: SmtpMail.SmtpServer.Insert(0,"127.0.0.1") Actually Does Something

mstehle — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:18:00 GMT

One of the principles of the Information Age is that anybody with a blog like mine or a Code Project account can write an article viewable to millions of people around the world. As a support engineer, I love and hate this at the same time. Take the following Code Project article for example......(read more)