Extracting URLs, not perfect but "good enough"

submitted by activa 1 month, 4 days ago

blog.activa.be — Detecting URLs in text is harder than you would expect. In fact, it can't be done with a set of hard rules, but we can get very close by using a single .NET regular expression. Purists will protest, but what's wrong with "good enough"? read more...

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ProMesh.NET v2.0 RC1 is (finally) out

published 3 months, 3 days ago, submitted by activa 3 months, 5 days ago

blog.activa.be — After months of writing documentation, the first release candidate of ProMesh.NET v2.0 has been released in the wild. ProMesh.NET is a powerful MVC framework for .NET 2.0 that has been around for a long time, but today it finally reached another important milestone. read more...

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CoolStorage.NET 1.2.0 released

submitted by activa 6 months, 5 days ago

blog.activa.be — It has been almost one year since the last public release of CoolStorage.NET ("cool" open-source object mapper for .NET 2.0), but this doesn't mean the product was dead. A lot of people regularly downloaded the latest builds from CodePlex and I received a lot of great feedback, which finally lead to the release of version 1.2. read more...

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The problem(s) with value types

published 6 months, 7 days ago, submitted by activa 6 months, 9 days ago

blog.activa.be — Value types can sometimes cause unexpected behavior. This post explains one of the pitfalls you can encounter when using arrays and lists of value types. read more...

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Generic types and IDisposable, the "using" trick

published 6 months, 13 days ago, submitted by activa 6 months, 14 days ago

blog.activa.be — This is another one in the series "heck, I never thought of that"... Like most of these articles, if you already knew this trick, ignore me... read more...

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if ... else if ... else if ... else ... : an alternative

published 8 months, 23 days ago, submitted by activa 8 months, 23 days ago

blog.activa.be — Did you know there's an alternative way of writing "if .. else if .. else if .. etc.." in C#? You probably do, but if you don't, read on... read more...

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Accurate method timing helper class

submitted by activa 8 months, 27 days ago

blog.activa.be — How many times have you written some timing code around a method call? If the answer is never, move on, skip this article... For timing purposes, I always use a simple "TimeRunner" class that allows you to accurately measure the time it takes to execute a specific method. A kind of "poor man's profiler". read more...

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LazyParser.NET v0.9.0 on CodePlex

submitted by activa 9 months, 2 days ago

blog.activa.be — A little sooner than expected, I decided to publish the source code for LazyParser.NET on CodePlex. LazyParser.NET is a lightweight C# expression parser that allows you to add late-bound expression parsing to your .NET applications. read more...

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