How to send email using C# and Outlook.com
This is a note to myself. I recently had to write this code for the third time in my life in the last 11 years because I did not save it somewhere consumable. So putting it on my blog for …
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Coding Interview Question – Optimizing toy purchases
Problem
My son gets a weekly allowance of $15. He takes that money every Friday and goes to Toys’R’Us to find two toys he can buy for $15. He wants to use all his money and does not want any …
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Polly – A Framework for Policy Based Retries of Transient Errors in C#
In the last few posts we looked at two ways of handling Transient Errors. The first post showed how we can write a custom retry logic for transient errors with exponential back-off. The second post showed how we can …
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A Concise Guide to Transient Fault Handling Application Block
Transient errors are intermittent errors caused by a short lived outage of a specific resource or service. In most cases, if you retry the operation after a few seconds, the error disappears. Transient errors are often beyond the control of …
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Transient Errors Are Evil – How to Handle them With Exponential Backoff in C#
Transient errors are intermittent errors caused by a short lived outage of a specific resource or service. For example, a network route might be unavailable for a few seconds or milliseconds, a web service may be experiencing high load …
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