Posts Tagged ‘tips & tricks’
Organize Usings
Posted by: adnanrashid on: August 23, 2009
During your development, you may notice that your code file contains using directives which are not required by your code. The Visual Studio IDE provides the Organize Usings option to remove/sort these using directives. To access this option, right-click anywhere within your code editor and select one of the sub-menu options for Organize Usings option.
Remove [...]
Javascript – Query String Parameters
Posted by: adnanrashid on: March 4, 2009
Here’s a small javascript helper to read Url Query String Parameters.
function GetUrlParams()
{
var vars = [], hash;
var hashes = window.location.href.slice(window.location.href.indexOf(‘?’) + 1).split(‘&’);
for(var i = 0; i < hashes.length; i++)
{
hash = hashes[i].split(‘=’);
[...]
Multiline TextBox Length Validation
Posted by: adnanrashid on: January 10, 2009
Unlike the normal TextBox, the MaxLength property doesnt work for MultiLine TextBox. Heres a small trick to solve the problem:
<asp:TextBox ID=”txtExample” runat=”server” TextMode=”MultiLine” />
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID=”revExample” runat=”server”
ControlToValidate=”txtExample” ValidationExpression=”[\s\S]{1,200}”
Display=”Dynamic” ErrorMessage=”Length cannot be greater than 200 characters” />
The above markup validates the revExample TextBox / textarea and limits the max characters to 200. By modifying the regular expressions, [...]
Conditional Breakpoints
Posted by: adnanrashid on: December 23, 2008
Visual Studio is filled with nifty tricks, which if leveraged properly in the right situation can make the developers life easy. Consider if you had a looping statement, and wanted to debug it, but only for a particular value. Rather than hitting the breakpoint every time, you can shorten the hits by using a Conditional [...]
“Attach to Process…”
Posted by: adnanrashid on: December 22, 2008
Tip to debug a running instance of an application
Asp.net Read Reciept Request
Posted by: adnanrashid on: September 28, 2008
Heres a quick tip. If you need to include a request for read receipt like Microsoft Outlook while sending mails through Asp.net, just add the Disposition-Notification-To Header to the MailMessage.
The MailMessage class does not have a corresponding attribute and thus it has to be set through the Header.
MailMessage mm = new MailMessage(fromAddress, toAddress);
mm.Subject = subject;
mm.Headers.Add(“Disposition-Notification-To”, [...]
Generic Handler – Session State
Posted by: adnanrashid on: September 26, 2008
In my current project I needed to access the Session state in a Generic Handler. To my dismay, i realized that the Session StateBag was null. The StateBag class is sealed and manages the Viewstate of the Asp.net server controls and pages.
Upon discussion with my colleague, Mr. Hamed, we found the solution to my problem. [...]
Remove project from Recent Projects in Visual Studio
Posted by: adnanrashid on: September 15, 2008
Recently, I felt the need for removing a project from the Visual Studio Start Page, so I Googled and would like to share the solution. Don’t forget to close visual studio before trying this out. This trick requires modification to registry, so if you are skeptical do make a backup of the registry before proceeding.
Start [...]
Encypting query string in asp.net
Posted by: adnanrashid on: July 8, 2008
When you pass information from one page to another, you are passing information that anybody can sniff. For example consider a scenario, in which you pass the customer id as a query string:
http://www.yourapplication.com?customer_id=15
Now if somebody replaced 15 with say 10 or any other number, they can pull up other customer information. And thats a bad [...]
ASP.net Reset Password
Posted by: adnanrashid on: July 6, 2008
- In: Development
- 1 Comment
If you are using Membership Provider in your ASP.net application, you might come across a scenario in which you need to have both Security Question and Answer feature and would also like to programmatically reset the password for an account.
So if you run the code
string username = “user”;
string password = “password”;
MembershipUser mu = Membership.GetUser(username);
mu.ChangePassword(mu.ResetPassword(), password);
You [...]
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