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Understanding Locks
In a previous article I covered ‘transaction isolation’ levels. A related topic is locking. Earlier, we had seen locking in the context of blocking and deadlocks (“Learning from other’s mistakes” – 3rd Feb 2003). In today’s article we cover more details related to locking and various ways of minimising / controlling it.

The C# Column
Email-enabled Windows application
Want to send email from a .NET Framework application? You could do it the hard way by using sockets to establish a connection to a mail server and then transmit a mail message using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Or you could do it the easy way and rely on classes in the System.Web.Mail namespace.