(Ben Nadel) Most regular expression engines have at least some support for flags and modes within their patterns. Flags such a (x) Verbose, (i) Case-Insensitive, and (m) Multiline change the mode of the regular expression matching which, of course, changes the type of text that can be matched.

(Simon Cooper) Today, I’ll be starting a look at the Structured Exception Handling mechanism within the CLR. Exception handling is quite a complicated business, and, as a result, the rules governing exception handling clauses in IL are quite strict; you need to be careful when writing exception clau

(Gianluca Negrelli) In this article I would like to speak about two important arguments that contribute to make our new way of programming more complete and flexible.

(Memphisto) The ToString method of the .NET framework object has a good set of useful features.

(Scott Mitchell) Screen scraping is the process of programmatically accessing and processing information from an external website. For example, a price comparison website might screen scrape a variety of online retailers to build a database of products and what various retailers are selling them for

(Jalpesh P. Vadgama) We all know <%=expression%> features in asp.net. We can print any string on page from there. Mostly we are using them in asp.net mvc. Now we have one new features with asp.net 4.0 that we have HTML Encoded Expressions and this prevent Cross scripting attack as we are html encodi

(Mahesh Chand) I am building a Project Survival Forecaster application in Silverlight 4 that forecasts the chances of surviving a software project. In this application, I need a ComboBox control to host other child controls.

(Robin Hames) ASP.NET applications can make use of the System.Web.Caching.Cache object to cache data and prevent repeated expensive calls to a database or other store. However, ideally an application should make use of caching at the point where data is retrieved from the database, which typically i

(Ben Nadel) At the beginning of March, I’m giving a talk on Regular Expressions at Scotch on the Rocks – Europe’s premier ColdFusion conference. If you have followed my blog for any time, you know that I think regular expressions are some kind of wonderful; I’ve even played around with ColdFusion cu

(Scott Guthrie) Last month we released the Beta of VS 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1). You can learn more about the VS 2010 SP1 Beta from Jason Zander’s two blog posts about it, and from Scott Hanselman’s blog post that covers some of the new capabilities enabled with it. You can download and install t