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How to Export Data to Excel in C# and ASP.NET

Posted on May 27, 2009 by matt in Web Development 4 Comments

If you develop a web-application for a client that involves creating and viewing reports, it’s very likely that they’re going to want to be able to export that data to excel very readily. Fortunately, you won’t need any special libraries or hundreds of lines of code to make that happen in ASP.NET. All you need […]

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Your WordPress Blog or Website

Posted on May 26, 2009 by matt in Web Development 10 Comments

WordPress is without a doubt the most popular blogging platform on the web. It’s easy to use, relatively secure, very extensible and best of all free. Unfortunately, it’s not optimized for search engines terribly well out of the box. The URLs that it generates don’t have any keywords in them. There’s no way to customize […]

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How to Generate Random Passwords in C#

Posted on May 26, 2009 by matt in Web Development 3 Comments

If you’re developing a site that requires users to logon, chances are you’re going to need to be able to generate passwords at some point, whether it be when users initially create their accounts or after they lose their passwords and need to reset their account credentials. Here’s a very customizable function that will generate […]

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How to Build a Joomla Testing Environment on Windows

Posted on May 25, 2009 by matt in Web Development 6 Comments

In the next couple of weeks, I’m planning on developing a Joomla 1.5 module so that I can flex my PHP muscles and get some more experience developing for Joomla. As part of this, It will be very helpful to have a local environment where I can test out the component that I’m plan on […]

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A Simple Way to Hash Passwords in ASP.NET

Posted on May 23, 2009 by matt in Web Development 1 Comment

If you’re developing a website that requires your users to create an account, it’s a very good idea to not store their passwords in plain-text in the database. A good chunk of users use the same password for just about everything, so if your database is compromised, there’s the possibility of having some real reprocussions […]

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How to Crop Images in ASP.NET with "Web Crop Image Control"

Posted on May 22, 2009 by matt in Web Development 9 Comments

When researching various web-based imaging cropping tools, I’ve found that there are a lot of good looking JQuery, MooTools, and other JavaScript based solutions out there, but there’s not a ton of good server-side support. The one ASP.NET control I found that I really did like was “Asp.net 2.0 Web Crop Image Control“. It’s actually […]

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ASP.NET Caching Techniques and Tools

Posted on May 21, 2009 by matt in Web Development No Comments

One of the most frequent criticisms of the ASP.NET stack is that it’s less efficient than some of its open-source counterparts. However, Microsoft has actually built in a lot of neat technology into the framework related to caching that allows for much more scalability than you might think. Not only is there caching support built […]

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How to Set File Permisisons to Upload Files in ASP.NET

Posted on May 21, 2009 by matt in Web Development No Comments

If you plan on doing any sort of file manipulation on a web-server using ASP.NET, you’re going to have to become intimiately familiar with the System.IO library and learn how to properly configure the permissions for the directories you would like to write to on your Windows Server ’03 or ’08 web-server. Fortunately, the process isn’t […]

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Make an AJAX-like Multiple File Uploader with Uploadify

Posted on May 20, 2009 by matt in Web Development 10 Comments

I’m currently working on an file manager that will be integrated with the content management system software that we developed. In doing this, I’ve been looking for a solution that would allow users to upload multiple files at once, does so in a very easy to use way and shows a progress bar. For this […]

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Making Use of Escape Sequences in C# and Visual Basic

Posted on May 20, 2009 by matt in Web Development No Comments

When working with strings of text, there are certain characters that you can’t represent in a normal string variable because the key required on the keyboard simply doesn’t exist or because of how strings are represented in text. Fortunately, modern programming languages provide “escape sequences,” or ways to represent certain characters that otherwise could not […]

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