Coding Tips

Back to office after one week of training in UML.
First problem of the day, unable to send mails thru the application, error message was "Unable to access System.CDO.Message", as usual googled it and came across this website which has loads of info on using System.web.Mail namespace. Here is the URL of the website
http://www.systemwebmail.com/faq/4.2.3.aspx

Today I had a strange error while trying to update a table in access table, The error messge displayed was query should be updatable, strange thing was when I tried to run the query directly thru access records were updated, where as thru the application operation was failing. After much thinking I thought it might be cauz of permission on the folder containing access, wow gave full rights on the folder to aspnet user and guest account viola it worked!!!. uh wasted one hour for this but found the solution :)

Well today I was trying to validate the contents of a textbox for a particular format (typically it had version information displayed), I was knowing that the best approach will be to surrender to regexp but since I did not find any ready made regular expression on net, I explored writing regular expression by myself.
I found a couple of tools and few articles while exploring net, which are worth mentioning and were quite useful.
the tools can be found at

1. http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=c712f2df-b026-4d58-8961-4ee2729d7322
2. http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/expresso.asp

The article at the below link is a good one to start with http://devcenter.infragistics.com/Articles/ArticleTemplate.Aspx?ArticleID=1272

To begin with I thought regular expressions will be complex and difficult to write, but with the help of the tool and the article it rather turned to be a simple exercise, may be my requirement was simple !! but that does not matter for a techie...

well tomorrow I will post the code for accessing regular expression through Javascript.