With Microsoft iminently shuttering the capability to send emails programmatically via MS Exchange in Azure, developers need to switch to a mechanism that will be supported moving forwards. Enter Microsoft Graph. This article describes how the MS Graph API can be leveraged to replace MS Exchange based mailing for the programmatic sending of emails.
Anyone who’s done much in the way of programming in Windows Communications Foundation (WCF) will be well aware of the problems that can occur due to even minor configuration inconsistencies between client and service endpoint settings. The fact those settings are normally defined within application configuration files means that a typo, or one or more settings that are different between files can grind connectivity to a halt.
The .NET Framework includes some FTP capabilities within the System.Net namespace. My experience using those classes has been mixed to say the least, and after struggling to get solutions to work reliably I decided to write my own client class instead.