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Once I needed a simple, open source and robust FTP client to include in my project. To my surprise I was not able to find one in spite of many FTP clients that were published on various websites. So what appeared to be a problem? The problem was the quality: simply the published projects were all just demos. There was no quality FTP clients...

Sending email using the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) can be a slow process, particularly when sending large numbers of messages using, for example, a bulk email tool. This process can be accelerated with considered use of asynchronous sending.

Yet another chat application, with server running in service mode or GUI mode.

Many modern applications send email for a variety of purposes. This includes sending email to customers, suppliers and other businesses or individuals or for reporting problems that have occurred whilst running a program. With.NET, sending mail is easy.

This application is built on the WCF .NET Framework 3.0. It uses duplex communication and TCP binding (for some reasons that are discussed later in this article). It concentrates on handling and controlling a WCF service that has to make reliable sessions with many clients and keep those connections alive as long as possible.

A fairly simple to use Winsock component, allowing simple networked applications. Built modeling the VB6 component of the same name, with enhancements.

An ASP.Net/AJAX interface for utorrent

Learn how to build your own mailing list server, making use of the new classes located in the System.Net.Mail namespace in .NET 2.0, as well as some techniques to retrieve emails from Outlook.

In this article we will see just how easy it is to display XML data in an ASP.NET 2.0 page. In particular, we will build a User Control that will display the contents of an RSS feed. Once created, this User Control can be dragged onto the Design surface of any ASP.NET page in your project and configured to display the contents of a particular RSS feed by simply setting the control's Url property to the URL of the RSS feed.

Find out how to avoid having to serialize attachments before sending them via email.