Network Programming in .NET

If you have a mailing list, or database of users and email addresses, but it appears to be full of nicknames and “asdasdasd” nonsense, and you don’t want to send an email saying “Dear asdasdasd”, here’s some code I wrote using the AvatarAPI email resolution service;

static void Main(string[] args)
{
var strSQL = “sp_GetIncompleteNames”;
var dt =Database.PopulateDataTable(strSQL);
var intProgress = 0;
foreach(DataRow dr in dt.Rows)
{
Console.WriteLine(intProgress + ” Of ” + dt.Rows.Count);
var user = profile.Get(dr[“email”].ToString());
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(user.Name))
{
var realname = user.Name.Replace(“‘”, “”);
TextInfo textInfo = new CultureInfo(“en-US”, false).TextInfo;
realname = textInfo.ToTitleCase(realname);
strSQL = “update addressbook set name='” + realname + “‘ where email='” + dr[“email”].ToString() + “‘”;
Database.ExecuteNonQuery(strSQL);
}
intProgress++;
Console.Clear();
}
Console.WriteLine(“Finished”);
Console.ReadLine();
}

It runs through each name in under a second, so you can process thousands in a few hours.