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This week I saw a twitter from Roy Osherove about a new Regular Expression Visualizer he built. If you do not know Roy yet, he is a very smart .NET developer for TypeMock and has done some great work with regular expression tools, such as Regulazy and The Regulator. If you are not familiar with Visualizers then you should get to know how they ...

Recently I had a friend tell me they were working on a project where they had to hand scrub the data in their database. In particular that day they were manually scrubbing values like 'Not Applicable', 'NA' and 'N/A' which all meant the same thing. But in order for the data to be consistent they need to go in by hand and change all these values to ...

I have fallen in love with Regular Expressions over the past few months. Over the weekend I replaced some moderately complicated parsing code in an older application with a Regular Expression and found another quick use for one this morning, extracting a currency value. So here was my problem, I have an application that displays the cost of an ...

Earlier I wrote about a method of moving the ViewState to the bottom of the page.  The advantages of this are two fold, one is it helps with search engine optimization by getting non-essential content out of the top of the page.  Second since it is at the bottom of the page it helps the important content to render just a little bit ...

Cross-Site Scripting attacks are still a frequent occurance across the web.  Fortunately the ASP.NET framework has a built-in protection against this type of attack.  But as good as that is, it is still actually limited to a certain degree.  So it is a good practice to add your own protection layers to applications, guarding ...

I came across a good blog entry with a list of commonly used regular expressions.  Through it would be useful to reference.

I really started working with some heavy regular expression manipulations about a month or so ago.  I found this really good bood by Nathan A Good, Regular Expression Recipes for Windows Developers, where he presents some pretty useful and common regular expression methods to process text input quickly.  I have used it just about ...

Regular Expressions are not a very easy skill for any developer to master, that is why so few actually leverage this amazing feature of the .NET framework.  I have been working on a little application this week that needed to extract a specific peice of content from a long piece of text that was based on a predictable pattern.  Let's ...