Due to extensive use of email and blackberry, our team get requirement to add new module to enable approval routing via email. Concept is when user click a button on web application, system then will send email to approvers base on  pre-define approval routing scheme. Thus approver then will read email and click links within email, which basically a shortcut to send email to specific account with pre-defined subject. A batch process is being set to run every 10 minutes to read any email is being sent by approver on our exchange server and read specific pattern on subject to define if a request would be approved or rejected.

Most challenging part is to read exchange server, since our POP3 access is closed due to security reason, so further reading on this post will describe on how we achieve that through combination of .Net, Exchange Server, XML and DAV access.

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Having a web service that published is very handy way to integrate one system with another. As number of available web service increased, sometime we would need a handy tool also that allow us to dynamically call web service within our code. This blog will discuss how we can do that using .NET 2.0 basic classes

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