By John Bubriski on February 22, 2012
Here is a post I wanted to write a few months ago while I was actively developing Kentico based websites, but I never got the chance to finish it. The code should be solid, and I’ll explain it as best I can. If you’re working with BizForm’s programmatically you’re going to need to get the ID [...]
Posted in Kentico, Programming | Tagged .NET Framework, ASP.NET, C#, Code, Kentico API Programming, Kentico BizForms, Kentico CMS |
By John Bubriski on February 21, 2012
Need to get all the files contained in a directory, recursively searching through sub directories? No problem! Here is how to do it without writing your own recursive function: var fileNames = Directory.GetFiles(directoryName, "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories); That’s it! No explicit recusrion required! If you want to do searching where you can stop when a given file [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged .NET Framework, C#, Code, Files and I/O |
By John Bubriski on February 15, 2012
This isn’t my normal type of “full” post. Rather, I wanted to plug my own project which attempts to “standardize” the way people do Symmetric Encryption in .NET using the AES algorithm (the successor to Rijndael). It’s called Encryptamajig. To quote the project readme: “When you look at encryption examples online many are verbose, misleading, [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged .NET Framework, AES, C#, Cryptography, Decryption, Encryption, Rijndael, Symmetric Encryption |
By John Bubriski on February 13, 2012
Did you setup Elmah on your website or web application? Yes? Great. Are you getting 100′s or 1000′s of exception emails every day for bots probing your site for various applications and application frameworks? Yes? Not great. Did you filter all those emails into a folder in your inbox? Yes? Then you’re doing it wrong. [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged 403 Forbidden, Elmah, IIS, IIS6, IIS7, Request Filtering, URL Rewriting |
By John Bubriski on February 9, 2012
So I needed to encrypt some sensitive data being stored in SQL Server. I looked into encrypting the data at the application level via C#, but that would mean I would need to ship encrypted data and keys around, which defeats the purpose (we use a thick client). So I turned to SQL Server to handle the encryption for me, and I was pleasantly surprised…
Posted in Programming | Tagged AdventureWorks, AES, Cell-Level Encryption, Certificates, Credit Cards, Cryptography, Decryption, Encryption, SQL, SQL Server, Symmetric Encryption, TDE, Transparent Data Encryption |
By John Bubriski on January 4, 2012
This article applies to IIS6, but the concept applies to almost any public website. You should probably setup a 301 redirect from http://example.com to http://www.example.com (or the other way around). If you don’t, bad things can happen. Anyway, here is how you can do it in IIS6: Instructions Create a new website with the same [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged HTTP 301 Redirect, IIS, IIS6 |
By John Bubriski on November 17, 2011
I’ve added a new page called Developer Resources. It’s going to be a repository of all of the blogs I read and podcasts I listen to. It’s a work in progress, but most of the podcasts I listen to regularly are up there now. Feel free to post suggestions! Most everything there will be programming/IT related.
Posted in Programming | Tagged Blogs, Podcasts, Resources |
By John Bubriski on November 9, 2011
If you’ve worked on an ASP.NET MVC site, you may have had to reference the ID in the current route. In a Razor view you can reference it via the following variable: @Url.ViewContext.RouteData.Values["id"] You may use this a lot if you have a lot of inter-action navigation. Why not throw it into an extension method!? [...]
Posted in Programming | Tagged .NET Framework, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, C#, Code, Extension Method |
By John Bubriski on October 17, 2011
Ever need to inject some custom validation into a BizForm? Check it: Below I’ve provided a method you can drop into your BizForm code behind, or the code behind of a BizForm clone. Then, call this method from an event handle for the OnBeforeValidate event. If Field A has a value this validation method forces [...]
Posted in Kentico, Programming | Tagged .NET Framework, ASP.NET, C#, Code, Kentico API Programming, Kentico BizForms, Kentico CMS |
