For the first time since November I have managed to open up Visual Studio .NET and get stuck into some coding in real anger. Man it feels so good :-D Nothing earth shattering has been accomplished as most of the time was spent scratching my head, trying to figure out how to do really basic stuff. I set myself a little project up to create a command line email application. One that you could run at the DOS prompt and pass command line arguments to for stuff like email server, recipient, sender, subject, message text etc.
I've got the basics of the command line manager component sorted out, learning about how to create a collection class along the way. This is a DLL that you pass the command line to and it breaks it up into name/value pairs with a few members to make retrieving the command line arguments pretty simple. The Email component is also working so I can send emails. Another DLL that also has a graphic form that can be used to modify the settings, if required. I need to put them together and expand on the basic features a bit but all in all not a bad days programming :)
When I get it up and running I'll post it up as an open source project, not that I suspect many people will be too interested in it ;-)