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How to Cast an ArrayList to an Array

So you have an ArrayList of strings and you want to return it as a string[] array. It's really easy:

return (string[])arrayList.ToArray(typeof(string));

Commercial Template: Six-Oh-Six

Commercial Template Six Oh Six Screenshot

Here it is! My first commercial template! :-) It costs $50.00. Until I can get PayPal working with my template, e-mail me if you want the template. :-)

using Female = Earth. LivingBeings. HomoSapiens. Female;

If you didn't know the using statement given in the title is valid, then congratulations! Now you do. ;-)

Why would you use this instead of the more general using Earth.LivingBeings.HomoSapiens.Female? Well:

To Avoid Conflicting Class Names

Suppose you Autopsy.cs uses both Earth.LivingBeings.Humans.Female as well as the Earth.LivingBeings.Monkeys.Female classes. One way to resolve the naming conflict is to laborously type out the fully-qualified class name each time you use it. The other way is to:


using HumanFemale = Earth.LivingBeings.Humans.Female;
using MonkeyFemale = Earth.LivingBeings.Monkeys.Female;

How to Send Authenticated SMTP E-mail


protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
 try
 {
  MailMessage message = new MailMessage(
    "from@example.com", 
    "to@example.com", 
    "Some Important Message", 
    "This is a test message and it's not that important.");

  SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient("your.smtp.server.com");

  System.Net.NetworkCredential credentials = new 
    System.Net.NetworkCredential(
      "username", 
      "password");

  client.UseDefaultCredentials = true;

  client.Credentials = credentials;

  client.Send(message);
 }

 catch (Exception ex)
 {
  Response.Write("Whoops! Couldn't send the e-mail: " + 
    ex.ToString());
 }
}