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Overriding Individual Application Settings

Published 19 years ago

You may have the situation where you want to be able to override application settings for a .NET application only for your particular instance of the application. This is often the case when you are developing the application, you need to change only the local settings, but you don't want to change the config file that is part of the project and under source control. Here we'll explain the solution that .NET provides but isn't so well known.

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Regular Expression for a Strong Password

Published 20 years ago

This snippet shows a Regular Expression for a strong password.

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How Do I Get the Names of all Embedded Resources in an Assembly?

Published 20 years ago

Because the naming scheme of embedded resources is sometimes a bit awkward (you have to take the Default Namespace, folder names and resource file names into account), it can be useful to display a list of all embedded resources in your assembly with their Fully Qualified names. Put the following code in a method, like the constructor for your control for example, to get all the names in the Output window.

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