Justin Cooney

Web Development Tips and Examples

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I am a Senior Applications Programmer / Analyst with years of experience developing enterprise solutions using the Microsoft technology stack including C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, IIS and SQL Server. I specialize in Web application development with a focus on building secure systems, integrating applications, and designing robust database structures.

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  • ClosedXML Nicely Formatted Header Row

    In this article I’ll show a simple example of nicely formatting a header row in a generated Excel document (using the open source ClosedXML library). If you would first like some background into setting up and calling functions using .Net and the ClosedXML library, have a look at a previous article I wrote, or visit…

  • Thoughts About Desktop Shortcuts to Web Sites in Windows 10

    If you have sites that you access routinely (like my site: http://jwcooney.com), then you’ll likely want a quicker solution to opening up the browser of your choice and then searching through your bookmarks for the site you want to go to. It’s often easier just to directly type the URL into your browser than using awkward…

  • ASP .NET: Safely Escape Data from your Database to Display in HTML but Still Keep Line Breaks

    In this short article I will show a simple example of how to secure data for presentation but still keep select formatting such as line breaks. For more .NET tips feel free to browse the categories of my site at: https://jwcooney.com/category/net/