Google Weather API with RestSharp

Guest post by DK! The Google Weather API is a grand service for developers to get weather data for any location with ease. RestSharp is a open source .NET REST Client… Been doing some work getting weather information from Google...

Fluent Email in .NET

See an updated (2018) example of sending in .NET core email using FluentEmail. I have been working with sending emails with System.Net.Mail and had a few people mention they would like fluent interface. It sounded like a pretty cool idea...

Simple C# Synchronous / Asynchronous Email Sender

UPDATE: I am now using a Fluent Email Class that implements similar techniques. I noticed quite a few search queries coming in for my post on User Control Email Templates so I thought I should post the code I am...

C# Micro Performance Testing Class

I often find myself wondering which version of a method would run more efficiently so for my own amusement I built this little class so I could easily test various method’s performance. I understand this is no substitute for real...

6 Useful SQL Server Scripts

This is a post we had on the short lived blog.tboda.com with input from DK and Benjii. People seemed to find it useful so I thought I’d give it second chance at life (plus one extra script). Database Backup This...

User Control Email Templates in asp.net

Just about every project i work on needs to send customized emails and everytime I hate doing it. Inspired by some answers in this stackoverflow question I thought I’d give a simple .ascx based email template system a dig. First...