Simple Regex to Remove Html tags

Posted on September 30, 2008 by ash

This is one of the simplest regex to remove html tags from some html text. I know its not the best but i’d argue that it’s one of the simplest.

public static string RemoveHtml(string txt)
{
    return Regex.Replace(txt, @"<[^>]*>", "");
}

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Formatting .NET DateTime to display Day suffix (st, nd ,rd , th)

Posted on March 4, 2008 by ash

I find it intersting that the MS did not have this by default as part of the Standard DateTime Format Strings for .NET.
So I did my own thing..

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Backing-up www.love2trade.com SQLServer DB 2005 from ASP.NET

Posted on January 17, 2008 by ash

Hi guys,
This is the code you would use to trigger a full sql 2005 backup to a .BK file from a ASPX page, i use that on www.Love2Trade.com 

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Get notified when your website throws an exception.

Posted on November 5, 2007 by ash

I used this code below in my website www.love2trade.com.
This will send an email whenever an exception is thrown in your asp.net website, there is a 15 minutes throttle on the frequency of emails.
In Application Start Class

private static int _exceptionCount;
private static DateTime _timeofLastException;
private static object _timeofLastExceptionLock = new object();
private static object _exceptionCountLock = new object();public static [...]

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Finding Distance between two points using longitude and latitude

Posted on November 2, 2007 by ash

This is a method that calulates a distance between two points. Let me know if you have a more acurate formula.

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