MSDN documentation gem

Today I was writing some additional mail functionality for our forum software we use internally. This is a .NET 1.1 application written with ASP.NET. I stumbled upon MailMessage.Fields and wondered what it was for so as a Good ProgrammerTM I pressed F1.

This is the full help, from the MSDN documentation library of October 2005 (so it should have that text by now, it's documentation for .NET 1.x)

MailMessage.Fields Property [C#]
Note: This namespace, class, or member is supported only in version 1.1 of the .NET Framework.
[To be supplied.]

[C#]
public IDictionary Fields {get;}

Requirements
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003 family

See Also
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3 Comments

  • No I have absolutely no clue what it does :) Also, checking SmtpMail.Send() doesn't reveal anything. As it's a readonly property, internally it should do something with the property but nothing is done with it inside MailMessage, and also not inside SmtpMail, for what I can see. :) I have the feeling it's a property which shouldn't really be there ;)

  • My 2 cents worth.

    I've used it when sending an email out of a Groupwise email server environment, from an ASP.NET app. Without using it the emails went through internally (to other Groupwise addresses), but not to "none Groupwise" addresses.

  • You write as though you've either not done this before (F1) or didn't expect such rubbish from MSDN ...



    Google my son, Google. :-p

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