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SecuritySwitch 4 is Now Official

It’s now official! You can download the stable SecuritySwitch ASP.NET module for automatically redirecting your users to and from HTTPS. Check it out on Google Code, or just grab it from NuGet. PM> Install-Package SecuritySwitch Enjoy!…

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SecuritySwitch 4 Goes Beta

SecuritySwitch version 4 has been in beta for a little while now. I’ve received some good feedback with no showstoppers at this point. I am also using the latest beta in one of my production environments with great success. Check out SecuritySwitch on…

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Convert a Value to Nullable

I’ve decided to start a new series-like set of articles on highly reusable code snippets. I write a lot of these types of snippets and figure it’s time to share. Kicking off will be the ConvertToNullable function. Background I despise boilerplate code…

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SecuritySwitch Grows Up on Google Code

Edit: Due to a trademark infringement, this open source project will now be named SecuritySwitch. What a huge PITA it was to migrate to a new project on Google Code! Since you cannot rename a project, I had to create a new one and…

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WebPageSecurity becomes SecuritySwitch

Edit: Due to a trademark infringement, this open source project will now be named SecuritySwitch. Feel free to read the comment posted by the holder of the trademark on the name I originally planned to use. It was a polite enough message. I think…

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ASP.NET "Remember Me" Option with Forms Authentication Not Working?

So, you’ve set the timeout value for forms authentication to a fairly large value, yet checking the “remember me” check box on the Login control still does not persist your users’ authentication, even after a fairly short period of inactivity. <system.web&…

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Prince of Persia “Combo Specialist” Achievement/Trophy

If you are like many Prince of Persia gamers out there, you have tried tons of different combinations of attack combos in the hopes of finding the right set that will award you that special achievement/trophy; the “Combo Specialist”. The good news is,…

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Simpler Robust ASP.NET Providers

I don’t like writing about something that I’m “currently working on” too often. The problem with that is sometimes other things (e.g. life) get in the way of my proposed timelines. All that aside, there are times when the standard SQL…

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Web Page Security - New Version

Some of you know me as a friend and code poet. Some know me as the crazy guy trying to get donations for his dad to get him a Wii. Some just know me as “that guy who wrote the web page security module…

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Custom Membership and Role Providers

I work for a community college as their webmaster/web programmer and things tend to be very disparate with regards to systems. The student information system speaks its own language and interfaces with its own data. The Active Directory trees are updated manually each…

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LINQ with SQL Server CE 3.5

LINQ is an extremely useful new language feature for the .NET Framework 3.5. It allows querying all sorts of data structures via the actual programming language (thus the Language INtegrated in LINQ). In addition, the specific variant, LINQ to SQL, includes a full…