I have been looking for a good first layer of validating an url to see if it is valid. For checking the format of the url it seems to me to be the most logical approach to use regular expressions. Up until now I always discarded them as being to “geeky”, meaning i don't consider it my life's biggest goal to be typing (/?[]\w) all day long (so why did i become a programmer, aaaah yes to make life easier for other people) Anyway.. to find a good regular expression to that validates urls not ur...

This happens when you want to enable your security to encrypt your password and enable password retrieval. If you set your own machinekey. My fix was in the web.config :        ...

Ever since I got my hands on .NET 2.0 I noticed the handler webresource.axd which seemed to provide a similar function as what I was using handlers for.  I used handlers in .NET 1.1 and before today also in .NET 2.0 to handle my javascript and css that I need in controls I developped. I mark them before compiling as embedded resource and then later on read them out via reflection and they get served up by the browser.I probably don't have to explain that (as long as your parameters don't change...

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I had a discussion with my friend Miel (Coolz0r) about spyware and their scanners for it. 6 months ago I did a test of several anti-spyware programs and MS antispyware became the winner. It found the most spyware and what I liked most about it was that it provide everything that Ad-aware and Spybot supplied all together. This and the spynet option.  But in 6 months a lot can change and now I have whenU on my machine together with some other heavy duty spyware.  More on the reasons for this you...

There is a new Atlas RC available for download.  This one has got really cool new features.  If you haven't looked at atlas before you should look at it now. AJAX just became as simple as 1-2-3. Nikhil Kothari blogs about the new features : A quick tour of Atlas December CTP :http://www.nikhilk.net/AtlasM1.aspx The role and functionality of the Atlas Scriptmanager :http://www.nikhilk.net/AtlasScriptManager.aspxThat should get your appetite for AJAX going :-D...

I live in new zealand. I can successfully create appointments in exchange using webDAV.  But I can only create them in the timezone Z if I change the timezone to Y (which is mine) I always get bad request. Do I say ok.. so not during string conversion but I just calculate the offset and add that to the date and create the appointment then that should be ok. Also not !!! My conversion function is very basic but i didn't find a way to get it properly formatted in .NET so this is my way. The funct...

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To get the subtotal of products in their own subcategory                            1234               233                                 1235               23                                       124               298            Subtotal : €  ...

As mentioned earlier in this blog, I am building a rss program together with http://datafreakz.blogspot.com Right now we have about 100000 feeds from this feeds I had before the weekend about 5000 that failed. Now most of these feeds were valid rss although my google sidebar doesn't parse a lot of them either. Then I've noticed that lots of people never took the time to read the specifications and dump whatever they like in an rss feed.Furthermore there are a lot of people including w3c and ms ...