C's SharePoint Collective

I posted a short list of my most used tools at

http://blog.cjvandyk.com/p/essentials.html

This is not an exhaustive list but will be growing over time so be sure to bookmark it and check back every so often. 😎

Code forth
C

Using Powershell it's pretty easy to get your thumbprint.  To get the list of all certificates in the local machine wide store, use:

Get-ChildItem -Path Cert:LocalMachine\MY

To get the list of all certificates in for the currently logged on user, use:

Get-ChildItem -Path Cert:CurrentUser\MY

Happy coding!
C

 http://blog.cjvandyk.com/p/list-of-downloadable-prime-numbers.html

Ever wondered what the new SharePoint Online URLs are all about?  Take for example https://cjvandyk.sharepoint.us/:x:/r/sites/Site1...
What exactly does the /:x: and the /r between the domain and the /sites mean?  Well wonder no more...

1. Most notable is the .Save() and .Load() methods added to the System.Object class.  This allows any object to be serialized to and from disk very rapidly e.g.:
   
   (object)MyClass.Save(<FilePath>);
   
   and
   
   (MyClassDefinition)MyClass = (object)MyClass.Load(<FilePath>);
   
   
2. A series of extensions was added to the System.Double class allowing any number cast as a double to be quickly converted between binary data sizes e.g.:
   
   double SizeInTB = 2;
   double SizeInKB = SizeInTB.ToKB(Constants.NumberByte.TB);
   
   Which will return 2,147,483,648 i.e. the number of KB in 2 TB.
   
   
3. A series of extensions was added to both the System.String and Sytem.Text.StringBuilder classes that make it easy to validate strong passwords e.g.:
   
   string MyPassword = Console.Readline();
   if (MyPassword.IsStrong())
   {
       //Pass.  Input is a strong password.
   }
   else
   {
       //Fail.  Input is NOT a strong password.
   }
   
   Even better is if you want to exclude say symbols or special characters requiring users to only use upper case, lower case and numbers, you can override the default parameters e.g.:
   
   if (MyPassword.IsStrong(true, true, true, false))
   
   The component methods of .IsStrong() can also be used independently e.g.
   
   MyPassword.HasUpper()
   MyPassword.HasLower()
   MyPassword.HasNumeric()
   MyPassword.HasSymbol()
   
   
4. A series of extensions was added to both the System.String and Sytem.Text.StringBuilder classes that make it easy to validate if a string is a valid US Zip code e.g.:
   
   MyString.IsZipCode()
   
   The method handles both 5 digit and 9 digit zip codes.
   
   
5. Extension methods was also added to make other string based operations easier e.g.
   
   MyString.IsLower()
   MyString.IsUpper()
   
   
6. Extension methods from previous versions were enhanced by adding the option to ignore white space as part of these methods:
   
   MyString.IsAlphabetic()
   MyString.IsAlphaNumeric()
   MyString.IsNumeric()
   
   
7. On the lighter side of things, if you've ever wondered what it was like to live in the Morse Code era, you can leverage to silly methods to see for yourself like this:
   
   "My message I want to send".ToMorseCode().MorseCodeBeep();

"    string truth = \"https://blog.cjvandyk.com   ROCKS !!!   \"".RemoveExtraSpace()

will return

"string truth = \"https://blog.cjvandyk.com ROCKS !!! \""

The .IsVowel() method was added to the System.Char, System.String and System.Text.StringBuilder objects.  It allows the developer the ability to check a substring for a vowel e.g.

"https://blog.cjvandyk.com ROCKS!!!".SubString(10, 1).IsVowel()

will return True because it's checking the "o" while

"https://blog.cjvandyk.com ROCKS!!!".SubString(11, 1).IsVowel()

The .IsZipCode() method was added to both the System.String and System.Text.StringBuilder objects.  It allows the developer the ability to quickly check if a string is in valid US zip code format e.g.

"12345".IsZipCode()

will return True as will

"12345-6789".IsZipCode()

The .IsStrong() method was added to both the System.String and System.Text.StringBuilder objects.  It allows the developer the ability to quickly check if a string is a valid strong password e.g.

"blog.cjvandyk.com Rocks!".IsStrong()

will return True.  You can limit the number of aspect matches thus:

"blog.cjvandyk.com rocks!".IsStrong(3)

The .HasSymbol() method was added to both the System.String and System.Text.StringBuilder objects.  It allows the developer the ability to quickly check if a string contains symbols or special characters e.g.

"blog.cjvandyk.com Rocks!".HasSymbol()

will return True whereas:

"blogcjvandykcom".HasSymbol()