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.

Category: VB.NET

  • Example of Encrypting and Decrypting a String into a SQL Table Using ASP.NET

    I’ve put together this article because even after a lot of searching, I wasn’t able to find a simple, working example of how to encrypt and then decrypt a string that you are saving in your database in ASP.Net. Sure, there are some partial examples, but partial code usually doesn’t answer the question properly. Added to that,…

  • Using ClosedXML.Excel with ASP.NET to Generate Excel Documents on the Fly

    I’ve been playing around with the ClosedXML.Excel library for creating or reading MS Excel documents in your ASP.NET code. Bottom line is that this tool is going to save you a lot of time: In simplifying your task of putting the Workbook and Worksheets together and I can’t stress enough how much time this will…

  • Catch the HTML for an ASP.NET Web Page

    Sometimes when you are working with ASP.NET, you’ll want to be able to programmatically capture the HTML that gets output by your .NET code. Here are sample snippets in VB.NET and C# that should give an idea of how this is done.