The Daily Six Pack: June 11, 2015

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Windows Live Writer Open Source Windows Live Writer Open Source - Microsoft to Open Source Windows Live Writer, Richard Hay Other Speed Up Stored Procedures with Table Valued Parameters, Peter Vogel Security Auditing With ApexSQL Audit,…

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The Daily Six Pack: June 2, 2015

A COLLECTION OF LINKS FOR LOVERS OF I.T. Dirk Strauss . . . . Feature link: Windows 10 Launching July Windows 10 is launching July 29, Harish Jonnalagadda Other Clean C# eBook Published, Jason Roberts Extending Visual Studio 2015, Heather Brown Using Reflection to Get Enum Description and Value, Bruno Leonardo Michels Protecting Yourself…

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Resolve Windows Live Mail Error When Using smtp4dev

smtp4dev test email sendsmtp4dev is an excellent testing tool to add to your tools library. Go ahead and download smtp4dev from CodePlex. It is a dummy SMTP server which is compatible with Windows 7/Vista/XP/2003/2010. smtp4dev Will sit in the system tray and listen for messages on the port you specify (usually port 25).

The best thing about smtp4dev is that it will not deliver the received messages. You can then view the messages or save them and inspect the source/structure. This makes smtp4dev very useful for testing/debugging software that needs to generate emails. I recently used it to test the email functionality from a VBScript. (more…)

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