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Having my source control server on my development machine. Am I going to the deepest level of developer hell?

I’ve spoken before in some of my other blog posts (some of which haven’t been finished/published yet) about password storage strategies and how it is important to make sure that you choose the right storage strategy. One of my friends pointed out that while it should be a no-brainer not to store passwords plain text or encrypted I didn’t provide...

We are regularly asked when registering for a website to make sure that we use a secure password, over a certain number of characters, different character sets etc. but once we have submitted our password how do we know that their password storage strategy is adequate? Yesterday I realised that I had forgotten my password for a web hosting serv...

I found myself recently needing to be able to present the user with the difference between two dates as a string, unfortunately the data had to come straight from SQL Server into the application that they was using ready to be displayed. After spending quite some time looking around the Internet to try and find a TSQL function that would work, I...

Microsoft Excel is probably one of the most used pieces of software on the planet. Spreadsheets are used heavily throughout the business world and Microsoft have enjoyed their Office suite taking a large proportion of businesses There was a question recently on Stack Overflow which I felt was a challenge to answer as I couldn’t find anywhere ...

This is one of the reasons why I love LINQ, its so easy to do something like randomise a list in just one line that used to take a few lines. The only thing you need to remember with this code is that you need to have specified that you’re using System.Linq in order for it to work. List myCollection = new List(); myCollection = myCollection.O...

Sometimes its necessary for us to identify what application is associated with a particular file extension, the following snippet of code will read the Windows registry to identify what application a particular file extension is opened with by default. ''' <summary> ''' This method deals with getting the path of the application that is sp...

This is one of those pieces of code that you spend ages trying to find/figure out but once you do get it, it is annoyingly simple. I recently needed to get the Icon that was being used as the application so that it could be used within the application consistently, this is the code that I used in order to achieve this. Icon.ExtractAssociatedIco...