Gain Control of your .NET Logging Using log4net   04 Aug 2006 23:27 GMT
Don't build logging capabilities for your applications from scratch; you can get robust and flexible logging functionality for your .NET applications with the free open source log4net framework, and then extend it to support custom needs.
Source: DevX

Mono IDEs: Going Beyond the Command Line   03 Aug 2006 23:19 GMT
Choosing to develop for Mono no longer means that you're also have to throw away the advantages that integrated IDEs provide. Instead, you have a wide—and growing—range of Mono IDE options.
Source: DevX

ASP.NET “Atlas” July 2006 CTP Available   02 Aug 2006 21:11 GMT
Bring Ajax support to your ASP.NET applications with the July 2006 "Atlas" Community Technology Preview.
Source: MSDN

Sending Email in ASP.NET 2.0: HTML-Formatted Emails, Attachments, and Gracefully Handling SMTP Exceptions   02 Aug 2006 00:00 GMT

As detailed in last week's article, Sending Email in ASP.NET 2.0, the .NET Framework version 2.0 includes a new namespace (System.Net.Mail) and new classes for sending email. (The namespace (System.Web.Mail) and classes used in the .NET Framework version 1.x still exist for backwards compatibility.) Last week we examined how to use the MailMessage and SmtpClient classes in the System.Net.Mail namespace for sending simple, plain-text email messages.

This article looks at the more advanced email-related options. We'll see how to send HTML-formatted emails, how to include attachments, and how to gracefully handle SMTP exceptions when sending an email (such as invalid relay server credentials or if the relay server is offline). Read on to learn more!

This article assumes that you are already familiar with sending simple, plain-text emails from an ASP.NET 2.0 web page; if not, please first read Sending Email in ASP.NET 2.0 before tackling this article...
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Discover a New Frontier for .NET Development: Program an LCD Display   01 Aug 2006 04:38 GMT
Personal computers aren't the only place where applications can run. As we look toward the future, the possibilities are limitless for creating applications that manipulate other types of displays. Get started with this sample .NET application that controls an LCD display.
Source: DevX