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Import ANPOP to .NET assembly

This tutorial introduces how to use ANPOP in .NET Framework SDK without Visual Studio.NET. If you use Visual Studio.NET as your development tool, please refer to the corresponding tutorials.

In "DOTNET Assembly" directory of ANPOP installation directory, there is a file "ANPOPLib.dll", it is the run-time file of ANPOP in dotnet common language assembly. You can also generate "ANPOPLib.dll" by "tlbImp" tool in .NET Framework SDK.

[run this command under dos prompt]
tlbimp "C:\Program Files\AdminSystem.NET\ANPOP\ANPOP.dll" /namespace:ANPOPLib /out:ANPOPLib.dll

Simple project

Create a file named "test.cs" with notepad, and input the following code:

using System;
using ANPOPLib;

namespace CheckEmail
{
  class CheckEmail
  {
    public static void Main( string[] args )
    {
      string server = "", user = "", password = "";
      Console.WriteLine( "Welcome to ANPOP CSharp Sample");
      Console.WriteLine( "Please input pop3 server");
      server = Console.ReadLine().Trim();
      Console.WriteLine( "Please input user name");
      user = Console.ReadLine().Trim();
      Console.WriteLine( "Please input password");
      password = Console.ReadLine().Trim();
      
      Console.WriteLine( "Start to connect {0} ...", server );
      try
      {
        POPMAINClass oPop3 = new POPMAINClass();
        if( oPop3.Connect( server, user, password ) != 0 )
          throw new Exception( "Error with Connect method" );
        
        int nCount = oPop3.GetTotalOfMails();
        if( nCount == -1 )
          throw new Exception( "Error with GetTotalOfMails method" );
        
        Console.WriteLine( "Total {0} email(s) on server", nCount );
      }
      catch( Exception e )
      {
         Console.WriteLine( e.Message );
      }
      Console.WriteLine( "Quit" );
    }  
  }
}

Compile this project

Copy "ANPOPLib.dll" to the same directory as "test.cs"

[run under DOS prompt]
set CompilerPath=%WINDIR%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.0.3705
%CompilerPath%\csc /reference:ANPOPLib.dll /out:CheckEmail.exe test.cs

Note: the compiler of Visual Basic.NET is vbc and the compiler of JScript.NET is jsc.

Now, try to run CheckEmail.exe.

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