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I was looking for a reference implementation to see how to send emails with a template for my Sendvite project. I finally found this simple and elegant answer.

The simplest way is to hardcode email content and inserts dynamical values using concatenating functions inside page’s code. But what if you need to change design of email or add some functionality to page source? Email template can be very big and contain a pile of dynamic variables with concatenation correspondingly. Looking into such source is horrible. Everybody knows it and in spite of this even professional programmers often choose the way to place content email in the source code.

Link: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/mailtemplates.asp

Hope this helps. i implemented it already and it works really good.

I looked around for a free .NET library to read POP3 emails from Gmail or any other client. Finally i found a working & simple library or project here http://www.codeproject.com/cs/internet/Pop3MailClient.asp.

Good example.

ASP.NET 1.0 introduced the Forms Authentication feature to allow developers to easily author ASP.NET applications that rely on an authentication mechanism they could control. Forms Authentication exposed a set of APIs that developers can simply call to authenticate the user, such as

FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(Username.Text, False)

Forms Authentication in ASP.NET 1.0 would then take the username, encrypt it, and store it within an HTTP cookie. The cookie would be presented on subsequent requests and the user automatically reauthenticated.

One of the common feature requests the ASP.NET team continually received was the ability for Forms Authentication to support cookieless authentication, that is, to not require an HTTP cookie. This is just what the team has provided in ASP.NET 2.0.

Enabling Cookieless Forms Authentication

Cookieless Forms Authentication is enabled within the machine.config file or the web.config file of your application by setting the new cookieless attribute.

Default Configuration for Forms Authentication

<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <authentication mode="Forms">
      <forms name=".ASPXAUTH"
             loginUrl="login.aspx"
             protection="All"
             timeout="30"
             path="/"
             requireSSL="false"
             slidingExpiration="true"
             defaultUrl="default.aspx"
             cookieless="UseCookies" />
    </authentication>
  </system.web>
</configuration>

The cookieless attribute has four possible values:

• UseUri: Forces the authentication ticket to be stored in the URL.
• UseCookies: Forces the authentication ticket to be stored in the cookie (same as ASP.NET 1.0 behavior).
• AutoDetect: Automatically detects whether the browser/device does or does not support cookies.
• UseDeviceProfile: Chooses to use cookies or not based on the device profile settings from machine.config.