Connection String
Open Notepad Save the blank file as myConnection.udl Close notepad Double-click the udl file you just saved Fill it in and test it until successful Once succesful, close the udl…
Visual Studio 2010 versus COM-Object fails
I spent ages trying to find a solution to this issue after upgrading to VS2012. This link solved the problem and stopped me returning to VS2005. Why Microsoft, why? Thank…
Close a Parent Form from Child Form
From a child form I wanted to close the parent form after a button was clicked, the following is the code I used:// In the child form, create an event…
“System.OutOfMemoryException: Out of memory” When using Image.FromFile(imageFile)
When I was populating an System.Drawing.Image object from a folder of images I revceived the following error message:"System.OutOfMemoryException: Out of memory"At first I thought I had a very large image…
Strip HTML Tags from a String using Regular Expressionsâ
Whilst writing some code to search forum posts I had the reason to remove all HTML tags from the forum posts before I could do a valid phrase search. I…
Examples of Regular Expressions
Trim string in JavaScriptvar trimre='^s+|s+$'; // replace whitespacevar trimmedstring = string.replace(trimre,"");Check for a valid date format in JavaScriptvar re='^(d{1,2})/(d{1,2})/(d{4})$'; // dd/mm/yyyyif (!datestring.match(re)){ alert("Date" + datestring + " not in valid…
Creating a Banned Words Filter
I have a website with a user forum and content management system, where certain users (or anyone in the case of forums) can post to. I therefore had to create…