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.NET Tips and Tricksby Peter Vogel

Guess That Product Answers

In my last blog I posted the first paragraph from three vendor news releases that failed to tell me much about the product they were selling. Here are the answers:

The FTP tutorial in my first example was the introduction for a COM control (i.e. not for .NET, though you wouldn't discover that until the fifth paragraph) for uploading and downloading files.
The news release that began by telling me about the product's internals turned out to be doing something with extracting information from and then displaying PDF documents.
The product sold by the company that was advertising itself: A POP3 client control. I could actually use a good e-mail control, but the company was too busy selling itself to tell me that they had one.

Posted by Peter Vogel on 07/07/2010

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