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Whenever you need to send mail via SMTP, download it with POP3 or access a remote mailbox using IMAP from your .NET application, Rebex Mail for .NET will provide the required infrastructure. It allows you to retrieve, create, load, process, save and send e-mail messages in MIME format using a s imple yet powerful interface, with no need to understand the complexities of MIME format. And for advanced users, there is a powerful low-level MIME library as well.

Learn how to install and run your ASP.NET applications on systems without IIS in three easy steps.

Balloon Tooltips .NET is a powerful .NET component that allows you to create cool customized tooltips for your .NET controls! Some advantages that Balloon Tooltips .NET has over conventional tooltips: multiple line text, sounds, icons, balloon style interface, background color, and foreground color.

This article provides a step-by-step introduction on Localization in ASP.NET 2.0 using the Visual Studio 2005.

What developer wants to spend hours manually writing Ajax pluming when the Ajax.NET framework does this for free? The Ajax.NET Framework presents a remarkably easy-to-use framework that will simplify Ajax development and allow developers to spend more time on implementation details and less time on parsing XML.

This installment of "The Baker's Dozen" presents a variety of tips and techniques to become productive with data handling techniques using ADO.NET 2.0 in Visual Studio 2005.

This article demonstrates the art of creating and architecting high-performance and scalable .NET applications, covering all stages, from planning to development and their perspective best practices.

When creating ASP.NET 2.0 applications, developers commonly store sensitive configuration information in the Web.config file. The cannonical example is database connection strings, but other sensitive information included in the Web.config file can include SMTP server connection information and user credentials, among others. While ASP.NET is configured, by default, to reject all HTTP requests to resources with the .config extension, the sensitive information in Web.config can be compromised if a hacker obtains access to your web server's file system. For example, perhaps you forgot to disallow anonymous FTP access to your website, thereby allowing a hacker to simply FTP in and download your Web.config file. Eep.

Fortunately ASP.NET 2.0 helps mitigate this problem by allowing selective portions of the Web.config file to be encrypted, such as the section, or some custom config section used by your application. Configuration sections can be easily encrypted using code or aspnet_regiis.exe, a command-line program. Once encrypted, the Web.config settings are safe from prying eyes. Furthermore, when retrieving encrypted congifuration settings programmatically in your ASP.NET pages, ASP.NET will automatically decrypt the encrypted sections its reading. In short, once the configuration information in encrypted, you don't need to write any further code or take any further action to use that encrypted data in your application.

In this article we'll see how to programmatically encrypt and decrypt portions of the configuration settings and look at using the aspnet_regiis.exe command-line program. We'll then evaluate the encryption options ASP.NET 2.0 offers. There's also a short discussion on how to encrypt configuration information in ASP.NET version 1.x.

ASP.NET 2.0 brings enhanced performance and many new features that make the web developer's life easier. Alex Homer takes you through what's new.

This is an assembly used to print reports in text mode. This results in a FAST and LIGHT WEIGHTED printing solution for your .NET application. It support all major printer control command sets (HP-PCL, EPSON-ESC, IBM-Proprinter). Most printer are normally compatible with one of these. The component supports the use of font styles (bold, italic ...), lines and rectangles, fonts, mapping of character sets.... RTextPrinter provides an easy to use api for printing text mode reports. It will handle the communication with the printer and all printer configuration commands in a transparent manner for you.