I struggled yesterday with a stupid problem. I have this german client and we've built a website for it. Of course, on the website you have some forms to contact the company by email. The email receiver of these emails is a strange email address that contains special character like "ö". Of course that an email address like röny@domain.com (this address is just an example) does not respect the standards (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc822.html), but since that's the client's address ...

In .NET sending an email with such an email address results in an error being thrown. The error says, of course, that the email address is not well formatted. At first I thought that I'm missing a text encoding, afterwards I thought I needed an HTML encoding. None of them worked whatsoever. After some tests I discoverred that I had to use an URL encoding, so this kind of email addresses must be URL encoded in order to programatically send emais. After encoding my email address would look like this: r%F6ny@domain.com.

I hope you will find this info helpfull.

The Future of .NET Reflector is no longer related (only) to Lutz Roeder. Newsletter primit astazi de la Lutz Roeder:

"After more than eight years of working on .NET Reflector, I have decided it is time to move on and explore some new opportunities. I have reached an agreement to have Red Gate Software continue the development of .NET Reflector. Red Gate has a lot of experience creating development tools for both .NET and SQL Server. They have the resources necessary to work on new features, and Reflector fits nicely with other .NET tools the company offers. Red Gate will continue to provide the free community version and is looking for your feedback and ideas for future versions. For news and updates on Reflector, sign up for the .NET Developer’s Newsletter from Red Gate. To find out more about the agreement, see the interview on Simple Talk."

Sper ca Red Gate sa-si tina promisiunea de a pastra Reflector-ul gratis, pe viata. Pentru Red Gate, la cat mai multe feature-uri utile, asa cum ne-a obisnuit de la celelalte produse, in special tool-urile de SQL.

Ieri, 11 august, s-a lansat Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (fara beta). Puteti sa il downloadati de aici.

E posibil sa vi se ceara sa dezinstalati anumite aplicatii, in speta cele beta, inainte de instalare; Microsoft a pus la dispozitie un si un removal tool, Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack Preparation Tool.

Spor!