Send & Receive Email, No Code Required
Send & Receive Email, No Code Required
  • DataBind to Internet mail servers using standard Visual Studio wizards.
  • Send & Receive Email through POP3, IMAP, and SMTP, Verify Addresses, and more!
  • Comprehensive support for CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) operations.
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Getting Started with Email ADO.NET Data Provider

Working with the new Email ADO.NET Data Provider is easy. As a fully-managed .NET Data Provider, the Email Data Provider integrates seamlessly with the Visual Studio development environment as well as any .NET application.

 

Visual Studio Integration - Server Explorer

As an ADO.NET Data Provider, Email ADO.NET Data Provider can be used to access and explore Email data directly from the Visual Studio Server Explorer.


It's easy. As a standard ADO.NET adapter developers can connect the Server Explorer to Email ADO.NET Data Provider just like connecting to any standard database.

  1. Add a new Data Connection from the server explorer and select the Email Data Source

  1. Configure the basic connection properties to access your Email account data.

Explore all of the data available! Email ADO.NET Data Provider makes it easy to access live Email data from Visual Studio.

  1. After configuring the connection explore the feeds, views, and services provided by the Email Data Source.
  2. These constructs return live Email data that developers can work with directly from within Visual Studio!


 

Winforms DataGrid Integration

Connecting Web, Desktop, and Mobile .NET applications with Email is just like working with SQL Server. It is even possible to integrate Email ADO.NET Data Provider into applications without writing code.


Developers are free to access the Email ADO.NET Data Provider in whatever way they like best. Either visually through the Visual Studio Winforms or Webforms designers, or directly through code.

  1. Developer can connect the Email Data Source directly to form components by configuring the object's smart tags.

  1. Add a new Data Connection from the server explorer and select the Email Data Source, and select the feed, view, or services you would like to connect the object to.

Done! It is just like connecting to SQL Server.

  1. Once the object is bound to the data source applications can easily interact with Email data with full read/write (CRUD) support.