Justin Cooney

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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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  • Outlook 2007 Image Distortion in Email

    Problems with Images in Emails I have noticed strange image distortions happening when I embed an image in an Outlook email message. I’m not talking about adding the image as an attachment, but about directly embedding the image in an HTML-formatted email message so that it immediately shows for the recipient. The strange thing is…

  • Outlook Custom Add-In to Archive Emails on Send Based on Keyword in Subject Line (Visual Studio 2010)

    Background The great thing about the Microsoft technology stack is that things tend to work together without the need to download and install unfamiliar libraries from unknown sources.  I continue to be impressed by how Microsoft centralizes its code libraries with Visual Studio and .NET 4 to make most development tasks quite seamless. For example…

  • The Default zIndex of a JQuery UI Dialog

    While I was working with a JQuery UI dialog today I noticed that some of the absolutely positioned layers on my page would overlap with a JQuery UI dialog when dragging the dialog object across the form. This broke the basic movement option of the dialog and would be unacceptable for users of the Web page.…