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Old Hacks Never Die, They Just Mutate

evX recently received an article submission that purported to show how to hack the Passport security model. Much excitement among the editorial staff over the prospect of reporting a vulnerability

Implement a Generic Custom Validation Control

This Tip applies to Microsoft .NET Framework. using System; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; public class CustomValidations { public CustomValidations() { } /// /// This method is used for validating _the string and

A New Way to Deal with Popup Windows

When creating a popup window from a hyperlink or button, I often get an error because I try to do it myself and the author has hard coded the same

Flipping a Picture in HTML

Using this code, you can flip any picture in HTML vertically as well as horizontally:

Create Temporary Tables in MS SQL Server 7.0

Sometimes a user wants to create a temporary table in the database during the execution of a stored procedure or sequence of SQL queries. To create a temporary table that

Check Which Files are Included in a Backup Device

In SQL Server, if you just want to check which data- and logfiles are included in a database backup device, you can use ‘RESTORE FILELISTONLY FROM xyz’ (with xyz representing

Control the Scope of a Singleton in an Application Server

Here is the code defining a singleton class: public class SingletonClass{ private static int id = 0; private static SingletonClass sclass = null; private SingletonClass(){} public SingletonClass getInstance(){ if(sclass ==null

Handy NT Administrative Shorcut

Recently, I came up with an easy way to quickly administer a single server from a click away on my desktop.When you need to check a share resource, share permissions

How to Read Standard Output from Another Program

In the java.lang package there exists a class called “Runtime”. With this class it is possible to get the runtimethread of your Java program.The exec method lets you create a

How to Increase Environment Space

The default environment that DOS uses to hold settings and DOS variables is small–only 256 bytes. Some programs can cause DOS to run out of space in this area by

Locale-aware string conversions

You can use the usual UCase, LCase, and StrConv functions to convert a string to upper, lower, and titlecase (e.g. “This Is A Title”). However, VB.NET offers is much more

Weekday names in any language

The System.Globalization.CultureInfo object exposes two properties, NumberFormat and DateTimeFormat, which return information about how numbers and dates are formatted according to a given locale. For example, consider this code: ‘

Trimming strings

Visual Basic .NET strings expose three trim methods: TrimStart, TrimEnd, and Trim – which trim one or more characters from the beginning, the end, or both the beginning and end

Iterating over the characters in a string

Visual Basic .NET strings support the For Each statement, so you can iterate over each individual character as follows: Dim s As String = “ABCDE”Dim c As CharFor Each c

An Improved escape() Function in Javascript

Currently Javascript’s escape() has some limitations. For instance, if you want to pass a+b not a b, you want to get the literal “+” in the server side. Javascript’s escape

LPad Function in JavaScript

function LPad(ContentToSize,PadLength,PadChar) { var PaddedString=ContentToSize.toString(); for(i=ContentToSize.length+1;I

Using the IP Address in the Select Statement

IP addresses logically are four numbers. While they are stored in the DB, they are usually held in only one field. I have encountered two types of such storage:1) VARCHAR(15)’;

More Complex String Manipulations

Let’s say you have a table like this: ID test– —-1 Hello1 Mr.1 Gates2 I2 am2 the best And you want a result group by each ID: 1 Hello Mr.

Including Debug Code in Your Classes

You will often need to verify the correct running of your code. While you can use the debug mode of an IDE or compiler, you can also include some debugging