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Many times I have to use SQL Authentication instead of Windows Aunthentication when developing ASP.NET web apps. To encrypt the connection string used you can use the following batch file to encrypt the connection string sections of any asp.net web app: echo Please enter folder where webconfig is: :input set INPUT= set /P INPUT=Type input: %=% if "%INPUT%"=="" goto input echo Folder where webconfig is: %INPUT% aspnet_regiis.exe -pef connectionStrings %INPUT% pause Make sure you have aspnet_regiis.exe's folder in your PATH environment variable.

Most Fax server software allows you to send/receive faxes through email. While looking at the alternatives, I could not find any free, Windows based solution that suited my needs. Most of the software I looked at requires you to have a dedicated smtp server or DNS settings in your local network. I developed Email-to-Fax Server to work with an already established SMTP and POP server (it requires an email account) and decided to make it open sourced at CodePlex . Email-to-Fax Server’s foundation is the excellent Fax .NET library . The program is developed in C# and uses the internal Windows's Fax services as its foundation. Email-to-Fax Server is a windows application that does the following: Sends email attachments as faxes. Sends faxes received as email attachments to a specified address or addresses. It obtains emails from a POP email account and sends the emails' attachments as faxes to the fax number specified in the subject line. It uses a SMTP account to