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: Regular Expressions

  • The Top 3 Free Regular Expression Editors of 2013

    I’ve decided to have a look at what the open-source/shareware market has to offer these days when it comes to text editors that can handle regular expressions. I have been using EditPad Lite to test and run my regular expressions, and in the past 10 or so years I have not been able to find…

  • JQuery with ASP.NET: Save Copy / Paste Excel Data to a Database Table

    Have you ever wanted to help your users move data from Excel to your Web application? In this article I will give an example in ASP.NET that takes copied Excel spreadsheet rows from the user’s clipboard and saves the information to a SQL Server database table. Since ASP.NET runs at the server level, you will need to…

  • Useful Regular Expressions for Validating a URL and Validating an Email

    In this article I’ll cover two useful regular expressions that often come in handy when writing validation logic for a Web page. Most programmers will find they need to either validate a URL or an Email at some point, and the example expressions below are the most commonly used versions of each expression. I’m not…