One of best and unknown built in string function included in .NET is String.Split(). It has come in quite handy for my in the last 2 years that I thought I'd share. Pretty basic example here...and for my first post, I thought I'd throw in a little File IO (for free of course)! This was written in .NET 2.0 and it will take little to no modification to make it work in 1.0/1.1.

This snippet generates a secure hash string using VB.NET

This function provides the reverse of a string. It is constructed using string builder because strings in .NET are immutable, while stringbuilders are not. Therefore large strings could be slow to reverse if a regular string was used for the working value that is returned.

Grab a remote web document using sockets, with limited handling for 301 & 302 redirects.

Given a PHP array (even a deep nested array), returns a string representation of that array as JavaScript array. Useful when using PHP to output JavaScript.

This function loads an File into an String.

A function that will either read a file or read a string, and parse a random line from it. Very simple.

You can use this function to dynamically generate html "width/height" for use with displaying a thumbnail image usingthe original image. This will help save in making dup images just for display as a thumbnail.

It takes two arguments, the path to where the image is stored and the desired width or height.

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The below code will generate a form dropdown for all 12 months, with the current month selected. Handy for those date pickers!

The below code will generate a form dropdown for all the days of the month, with today's day selected. Handy for those date pickers!