November 2004 - Posts

Change SMTP Port of System.Web.Mail

I am using System.Web.Mail to send a email but my mail server is running on a different server and it requires authentication through the regular port 25. 

But I can send w/o authentication on a different port with a trusted IP address. 

Has anyone changed the port that the the .net framework sends mails through.

Andy

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XHTML doctype asp.net

After Reading a post by Jeffrey Palermo on Maxathon , that I too have beeing using for a while. He suggests using strict XHTML and CSS to reduce cross browser issues, and he is correct this does significantly reduce differences.

The problem I have encounted is that I have never been able to validate any asp.net 1.1 app on w3c's validator. asp.Net doesn't close all tags and the "name" attribute has beed depricated to name a couple.

Has anyone managed to create a method of rendering strict XHTML on asp.net 1.1?

Andy

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Changed the CSS

After making my first post yesterday I wanted to see what I was able to achive with CSS.  Having looked through all the skins I decided that I'd modify "AnotherEon001" using Custom CSS Selectors in the Admin section of .Text.  This tool in connection with the skins makes it very easy to manipulate the inferface.

This is makeing the top bar shaded

.top{
   FILTER: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient
(gradientType=0,startColorStr=#cccccc,endColorStr=#111111);
}

Shading the menu area and add a a dashed right side:

#leftmenu{
   FILTER: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient
(gradientType=1,startColorStr=#ffffff,endColorStr=#cccccc);
   border-right:dashed 1px black;
}

Adding more style to the Header area

#sub{
   background-color:#cccccc; 
   color:#555555; 
   border-bottom:dashed 1px black; 
   border-top:solid 2px white;
}

Enhancing the menu titles to the left

#leftmenu H3{ 
   background-color:#cccccc; 
   border:outset 1px white;
}

Making menu items stand out more

#leftmenu A{
   font-weight:bold; 
}

Inverting the items on :hover

#leftmenu A:hover{
   background-color:#222222; 
   color:white;
}

With these few changes the you can see that the style has changed (maybe not for the better!) but at least this make it's more custom than the defaults.

Andy

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I am 10 mins old!

"Woo hoo My first .net junkies Blog"

Hello All this is my First DotNetJunkies blog well post...

I feel as though I am starting on a great and exciting new voyage.

Just need to learn how to opperate the damn thing now, where did i put that manual!

Andy

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