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Subkismet 1.0 Released

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 13:46:02 GMT

Subkismet is a set of tools as a framework to fight against spam in .NET applications. Keyvan announces the first public release of this open source framework.

Testing your code

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:46:01 GMT

A primer to different testing methodologies and when to use them and how

Is ASP.NET too easy?

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:16:01 GMT

How does the easy approach of ASP.NET affect you as a developer?

Stock quote class in C#

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:01:01 GMT

Get real-time stock quotes with this simple class. It updates it self every minute with the latest quotes. Easy to modify.

Universal data type checker

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:46:01 GMT

A method that checks what types a string can be converted into. It could be integers, guids, booleans, enums etc.

Access browser information server-side

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:46:01 GMT

Exposes JavaScript variables to the C# code such as WindowHeight, ColorDepth or whatever JavaScript variable you can think of. Plug 'n play HttpModule - no code required.

HttpModule for query string encryption

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:01:01 GMT

Plug this simple HttpModule to your existing web application and all your query strings will automatically be encrypted without you have to change your code.

Do postbacks with parameters in JavaScript

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:01:01 GMT

How to cause a postback with Javascript on any element, and pass through parameters

Keep the content-type in sync

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:46:01 GMT

This method will add a meta-tag that specifies the same content-type as the HTTP header does. That way you just have to change the encoding in the web.config and it will automatically change the meta-tag accordingly.

Choose a standard number format

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:46:01 GMT

The problem begins when your web application is set to automatically resolve the culture through the browser. It is by default. All these different cultures have different ways to look at numbers and decimals and that's all built directly into the .NET Framework.

Block DoS attacks easily in ASP.NET

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:01:01 GMT

The module is a high performance and lightweight protection from Denial-of-Service attacks and very easy to implement.

Use the thread pool in ASP.NET

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:16:03 GMT

The thread pool gives you an easy and safe way for creating multithreaded applications, and even though the stateless nature of the Internet isn't the best place for multithreading, it can still be the right thing to do for certain scenarios.

Block IP addresses from your website

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:46:01 GMT

When an IP address is blocked it stops the response and sends a "403 Forbidden" header.

A simple factory using Generics

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:31:02 GMT

This simple factory design can be used for a variety of other purposes and it adds a great layer of abstraction to your code and makes it easier to maintain and reuse.

Get the HTTP status code from a URL

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:01:01 GMT

By using this simple method it is very easy to build your own web server checking tool.

Using the Ping class

Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:01:02 GMT

I've written a very small and easy to use method that returns the ping time of a given URL

Submit disabled controls in ASP.NET 2.0

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 23:31:01 GMT

When the form was submitted, it didn't submit the contents of the disabled textbox. It puzzled me, but then I found that ASP.NET 2.0 doesn't submit client-side disabled controls by default. However, there is an easy way to force it to do so.

A better string control in ASP.NET

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:01:02 GMT

The other day, I found the LiteralControl while browsing through the MSDN docs and that my friends are a real treat. It lives in the System.Web.UI namespace and it adds great value.

Validate a URL using regular expressions

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:31:02 GMT

Today, I had to build web form that took user input from standard ASP.NET input controls. In one of the text boxes the user must to enter a valid URL, so I had to make some validation logic. But first of all, I had to find out what kind of URL's we would accept as being valid. Based on those rules, I wrote these regular expressions

Download album art for free through a web service

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:31:01 GMT

One of the coolest things about modern media players are their ability to fetch the album art of almost every song in the library. Now you can too...

Add variables to standard CSS stylesheets in ASP.NET

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:31:02 GMT

There were two things I wanted to enrich the CSS language with: Variables and scripting. To make it work, I created an HttpHandler for ASP.NET that is able to parse these two new features and apply them to the stylesheet. It does not interfere with any CSS standards because everything is handled by the server.

Add a MicroSummary to any ASP.NET page

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 10:01:01 GMT

Scott Hanselman showed us how to add MicroSummaries to a website using an .ashx file. It was clean and simple, but it would be really cool if we could use the description meta tag instead so we don't have to maintain to separate files. Here's a solution.

A whitespace removal HTTP module for ASP.NET 2.0

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:01:01 GMT

A plug n' play HTTP module that works simply by adding the class to the App_Code folder. It uses regular expressions to identify and remove the unnecessary whitespace from the current .aspx web page. The overhead from this module is almost too insignificant to even measure.

Add social bookmark links to any ASP.NET page

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:01:01 GMT

It is a feature that is very easy to add to any ASP.NET page, but I haven't found any simple code on the web I could use for it. So, as so many times before, I had to create the feature from scratch. In this case it was no problem because it is so simple.

XML membership provider for ASP.NET 2.0

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 19:01:01 GMT

The XmlMembershipProvider let's you take advantage of the built in mechanisms for authentication in ASP.NET 2.0 only by adding a class to the App_Code folder and an XML file to the App_Data. No code required. This will save you many hours of work.