I wrote those two following PHP functions to encrypt and decrypt strings easly and with a stronger encryption module than the other examples on the net (please, note that “strong” does not equals “secure”!); Happy encryption/decryption! 🙂 Max [sourcecode language=”php”] … Read More
Javascript does not provide a function to recognize if a variable is an array or not; you can make a “typeof” of the variable however u’ll get an ‘object’ datatype, as in the following code [sourcecode language=”javascript”] var myarray = … Read More
I wrote a function to convert an object in a string (stringification) without using a JSON library; you can convert an object to a well formatted string with padding or simply to an unique line: [sourcecode language=”javascript”] function stringify(object, padding, … Read More
I wrote two functions in .NET to remove easly any accent and umlaut marks from a string and to get the equivalent non-accented string, this is very useful to normalize URLs; for example, with the StripAccentMarks() method, from “àbcdèéfghìlmnòpqrstùvzäöüÄÖÜ” u’ll … Read More
In this simple tutorial you’ll learn how to manage different languages for a vb.NET application and the simplest way to access programmatically to the string values in the resource compiled files (*.resx) created by Visual Studio; Adding resource files: First … Read More
This article describes how to implement the useful “IsNumeric” function in Microsoft Visual Basic .NET in Visual C#. The IsNumeric() function returns a Boolean value indicating whether an expression can be evaluated as a number. The IsNumeric() function returns True … Read More
With this simple vb.net function You are able to extract content from HTML tags, useful and smart Max 🙂 [sourcecode language=”vb”] Public Function GetTagContent(ByRef html As String, ByVal start_tag As String, ByVal end_tag As String) As String Dim s As … Read More
This updated version of mine “CryptographyHelper” wrapper/helper class supports .NET Framework 4 . With this vb.net class you can easly encrypt/decrypt strings using a robust symmetric Rijndael algorithm or you can get also MD5 or SHA1, SHA256 hash codes of … Read More
Hi to all, I wrote this .NET module that extends String class with useful methods to modify alphanumeric characters and symbols. It fully integrates with the compiler so You are able to recognize extension methods by IntelliSense; in the bottom … Read More
The faster way (with the best system performance) to count how many times a particular value is repeated in a List of items, it’s like this [sourcecode language=”vb”] Const chars As String = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" Dim rnd As New Random() ‘create … Read More