Much of what I've learned about IIS SMTP sinks has been largely trial-and-error, or reverse engineering. I am quite sure that the only reason for the existence of the SMTP server in IIS was to support Exchange and little else -- a guess that is only rein… more »

I did a little more digging into the SMTP sink issue I was having the other day. It seems that inetinfo.exe doesn’t load the .NET framework into itself right away, but instead the issue is that it calls my managed event sinks via .NET COM interop.You… more »

Be very careful when you decide to start updating your code to .NET 2.0. One thing I found out (the hard way!) is that there is apparently some .NET code loaded into the inetinfo.exe process, which causes inetinfo.exe to load version 2.0 of the framework… more »

Apparently, some people think the new Office “12” (aka Office 2007) interface is not very “simple”. Let’s just quickly compare Office “12” with Office “11” then, shall we? Here’s the “new mail” window in Office “11”: I can count no less than 52… more »

I’ve just been reading a post in Michael Afronti’s blog titled “Share Me!” in which he describes a new interface in Outlook “12” (also known as Outlook 2007) that lets you share things like RSS feeds (among other things, I guess). One question that I… more »