I saw this list of “Basic C# coding guidelines” and I started off just replying to it in a comment, but there are so many that I disagree with, that I’m going to do it in a whole separate post.I’ll answer all the ones I disagree with, if I didn’t inc… more »

I was getting the following error recently:Error: The Side-by-Side configuration information in "<mydll>" contains errors. This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the applica… more »

Last time, I talked about what I call “sender passive” anti-spam techniques, where the sender doesn’t have to do anything special outside the SMTP protocol to get messages through. These techniques are OK, except for one major problem: because the sender… more »

If you’ve ever worked with P/Invoke before, you’ll no doubt know that the typical usage pattern is something like this:[DllImport("user32", CharSet=CharSet.Auto)]int MessageBox(IntPtr hWnd, string lpText, string lpCaption, uint uType);This is g… more »

I mentioned before how there are two basic forms for combating the email spam problem currently. I call these two methods “sender passive” and “sender active,” depending on whether the sender has to do something other what is specified in the basic SMTP… more »