.NET Regular Expressions

What the Heck is a Regular Expression Anyway?
I’m sure you are familiar with the use of “wildcard” characters for pattern matching. For example, if you want to find all the Microsoft Word files in a Windows directory, you search for “*.doc“, knowing that the asterisk is interpreted as a wildcard that can match any sequence [...]

Getting into Agile Development with .NET

Following on from my previous post Getting into Agile Development with .NET.
Confluence
Atlassian’s professional WIKI solution, it works great with JIRA and provides a really nice WIKI solution. For those who want to travel light with documentation, WIKI’s provide a nice fit for technical documentation, build documentation, internal designs, etc. as they easily accommodate rapid [...]

Creating Single sign on using .NET

We have a basic single sign-on requirement. We need to be able to allow users to login and pass that login to other distributed systems.
Here are the basic requirements:
1. We want to control the master user profile so that we can have access to the data and integrate it into our offline CRM systems.
2. We [...]

Getting into Agile Development with .NET

The following is a list of tools for doing agile based development with Microsoft .NET. There are quite a few tools out there that will accelerate your use of continuous integration, test driven development, source control integration, etc.
JIRA
Best tool for task management. For more details see my review of JIRA from a previous post. [...]

vs2005 Inline task comments

Creating Task List Comments in your projects can ensure you to complete the important and esential tasks. This feature can be used to indicate a variety of work to be done at the location marked
The Task List displays comments embedded in your project code that begin with the comment marker for your development language, followed [...]

SQL Caching

Caching is a very useful way for you to retain pages or data across HTTP requests, so that you can reuse them without the recreating them.
In ASP.net 2.0, it makes you easier to implement data caching. SQL cache dependencies are one of ASP.net 2.0 coolest features, which allows you to create dependencies between cached items [...]

Protecting web.config Connection strings

It is recommended that store your database connection strings in the Web.config file and encrypt the connection strings. In the .NET Framework 2.0, you have the option to enable the configuration encryption in the <protectedData> section in the web.config file.
For example:
<protectedData>
<protectedDataSections>
<add name=”connectionStrings” provider=”RSAProtectedConfigurationProvider”/>
</protectedDataSections>
</protectedData>
There are two predefined providers that you can find in the .NET Framework [...]