Yesterday, I wrote how to encrypt a password using a one-way MD5 hash , but as some of the comments point out, the MD5 algorithm is not strong enough. I listened and wrote a new encryption method that uses SHA256 instead...

Four years ago, I was working as a developer in a company that made custom content management systems. We offered back-ups of the databases to our customers on a monthly basis, but in those databases we stored all the...

I’ve just finished a small application that does some IO work on files and directories. The application moves directories to new locations, but every time a folder or file was marked read-only it would of course throw an...

You cannot always rely on the browser language as a valid indicator for what currency your visitors use, and sometimes it doesn’t matter because your web application let’s them decide the currency themselves. You then...

Isolated Storage is a place on the disk where your .NET application always has write permissions. That makes it ideal for applications that need to store information such as settings or XML without first asking for...

Internet Explorer 7 comes with build in web search from the toolbar, just like Firefox have had for years now. The cool thing about it is that you can offer your visitors to add your blog search to the different...

Have you ever considered how well a regular if/else-statement performs? I haven’t, but after watching this Channel9 video I wanted to test it. In the video, Brian Beckman explains that the order of the statements is...

Some of my readers have been asking me how I’ve added the Windows Live Alerts functionality to this blog. I simply love this feature and I hope that it will spread to some of the blogs I read daily. It allows me to get...

As you may know by now, I’m a big fan of Rockford Lhotka’s CSLA.NET framework and base classes. It’s packed with all sorts of cool functionality and I’ve used it for several years in various projects, but often I’ve...

Recently, I had to implement validation on business objects in an already existing project. The validation should ensure that the different classes in the business object tier would validate them selves based on business...