This little bit of code keeps webmasters from having to update copyright dates at the beginning of every year. Put it in the body of your HTML. Don’t forget to

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‘ A custom routine that works like FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage ‘ but lets you control the authentication cookie’s expiration date’ Example: create an auth cookie that lasts 7 days’ RedirectFromLoginPageEx(username, persistent, 7)Function

‘ Convert a string to its ASCII representation’ Example: Response.Write(AsciiEncode(“hello”))’ ==> hello” Note: this may be useful when you’re producing the code for HTML forms with ‘ hidden/visible field, and

‘ Output an image as a binary stream to the Response objectSub ShowImage(ByVal bmp As Bitmap) ‘ Clear current content and set returned content type HttpContext.Current.Response.Clear() HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentType = “image/jpeg” ‘

‘ Return the absolute Url of a secured page (that uses the https protocol)’ The input string is the page’s relative path’ Example: Dim url As String = GetSecuredPageUrl(“./Admin/Login.aspx”)Function GetAbsoluteSecuredPageUrl(ByVal

If you develop a custom control and want to give the option to output client-side javascript code, you’ll likely have a EnableClientScript that allows the developer to specify whether the

‘ Return the value of the specified custom key, stored in the Web.Config file.’ If the value has been already requested before, the function returns its ‘ cached value.’ The

Sometimes it is very helpful to use a JavaScript feature that supports adding properties to build-in prototype “Objects” at runtime. It is generally known that Netscape 4.x has problems in

Say you have a column in a SQL Server table that allows NULL values. You want this column to be unique when it has a value other than NULL. What’s

SQL Server does not allow you to include the Order By clause in a view.To do this, consider using the following workaround: USE pubsGOCREATE VIEW AuthorsByNameASSELECT TOP 100 PERCENT *FROM

The standard delimiters for literal strings in SQL are single quotation marks (‘). By default, SQL Server reserves double quotation marks (“) as delimiters for database objects.The SQL Server ODBC

The standard way to compare a variable String to a constant is to use this syntax: if(myString.equals(“test”)){ doSomething();} However, if myString is null, a NullPointerException will be thrown. Instead, use:

When you invoke a synchronized static method, you obtain the lock associated with the Class object in whose class the method is defined.When you apply synchronized to instance methods and

When a class designer believes that an exceptional condition is recoverable, the checked exception should be thrown. But, many programmers (and I am guilty of this as well) tend to

Sometimes, you need to find the Browser in which an applet is loaded. This small bit of code can do the job: public void getBrowserInfo(){ String vendor = System.getProperty(“java.vendor.url”).toLowerCase(); browser

It’s not uncommon that ASP.NET applications have the need to use a personal .config file to write some runtime information. Since ASP.NET applications are not granted the permission to create

Writing a transactional COM+ component with VB.NET is as simple as applying the Transaction attribute to a class that inherits from System.EnterpriseServices.ServicedComponent: Imports System.EnterpriseServices< Transaction()> Public Class BankTransfer Inherits ServicedComponent

COM+ 1.5 (provided with Windows XP) has an interesting feature that is missing in COM+ 1.0: the ability to disable entire COM+ applications or just their individual components. You can