Today, I needed a function that would look through some text input and check for any URLs and the URLs should then be turned into hyperlinks. In other words, I had to turn this www.someurl.com into <a...

I recently needed to validate a GUID in C# and found this article on how to do it. I've simplified it to make it suit the problem I was trying to solve. Here's what I did with it: private static Regex isGuid = new Regex(...

Working in the web marketing statistics business, I know how difficult it is to produce reliable statistics about visitors and their actions. A good web stat application, whether it is behavioral or marketing related...

During the last couple of years, I’ve been reading quite a few books about various programming topics and related technologies. Some of them take a very practical approach with a lot of examples and some take a more...

If you are building a high traffic website, you are probably concerned about bandwidth. Many hosting centres charge based on the amount of bandwidth you use, and it can be rather expensive for high traffic sites. This is...

In my efforts to improve the web developer's Test Browser , I have now added 3 new feature. Cookie watcher (the name and value) Link list window (the URL, title- and accesskey tag) Image list window (the URL and alt tag)...

When you are developing an ASP.NET web form, you want to make sure that the viewstate isn't larger than it has to be. The more viewstate you've got, the longer the page takes to render in the browser. I have often seen...

As a web developer, I do a lot of testing against different browsers and validating to W3C standards. These are the two things I spend most time doing when testing the HTML interface. It has become a common thing to do...

I recently had to make a dropdownlist populated with fonts. Luckily, .NET allows you to use the installed fonts very easy. First, add a drowdownlist to your ASP.NET page like this: <asp:DropDownList runat= "Server" id=...

A couple a months ago, I wrote how to remove whitespace from an ASP.NET page . However, the whitespace removal was to extreme for most websites. It mangled with the HTML to such an extent that only very simple websites...