This is a fix for those of you experiencing slow performance in Windows Vista due to explorer.exe using 100% or high CPU load. This problem is related to the new Vista start menu being configured by default to allow indexing of all files.

Displayed here is a quick lookup comparison between Visual Studio's regular expression and that of the standard Regex syntax.

Asp.NET 2 has a new class System.Web.VirtualPathUtility which allows you to resolve relative url's without the need of working within a UserControl or Page. This is especially useful if you need to resolve relative url's from within a data layer or object interface.

I've included a quick "DateTime.ToString Format" lookup. Very useful if you're having trouble remembering 40+ DateTime format specifiers.

I ran into a problem using Atlas on my page which resulted in a popup showing me an "Unknown Error" alert.

Over the course of the next Month I'll begin porting over the Know24 Currency Converter. In the meantime you can find the old Currency page at this URL here.

I had to write a quick method for removing illegal characters from a Windows filename. Wanting to do this in a non standard approach I decided to try out String.Replace() methods overload which accepts a character array as apposed to a string.

In this article, I will explain how to enable Native Http Compression on your Windows 2003 Server.
We'll cover the basics and provide whats needed for you to setup the compression on your own.

Proposed Index:
 
 IIS6's Compression Background
 Pro's and Con's
 Enabling Native Compression on IIS6
 Testing your compressed pages