ToolBucket multi-line search plugin for Notepad++

January 23rd, 2012
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ToolBucket is a C# .NET Framework plugin for Notepad++

Features

ToolBucket contains the following features:

  • Multi-line search and replace dialog.
  • Change indentation dialog.
  • Generate GUID
  • Generate Lorem Ipsum
  • Compute MD5 Hash
  • Compute SHA1 Hash
  • Base 64 encode
  • Base 64 decode

Download

The latest version is available here:
https://github.com/phdesign/NppToolBucket/downloads

Installation

Copy the NppToolBucket.dll file to your Notepad++\plugins directory.

Dependencies

Requires .NET Framework 2.0 or higher to be installed on the system.

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Delete Dependent Entities When Removed From EF Collection

September 6th, 2011
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I’m using Entity Framework 4.1 Code First Fluent API.
The problem. I have an Entity Framework model being used in the business layer called Patient, it has a collection of dependent entities called Responses, when a response needs to be deleted I simply remove it from the collection and expect that it’ll get deleted from the database. It doesn’t. Read the rest of this entry »

Conditional Validation in ASP.NET MVC3

June 10th, 2011
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Need to perform validation on a model’s property based on some other state of the model? Here’s a way to achieve it using the IValidatableObject interface and data annotations.

In our example project we want to validate the state field is a valid Australian state if the country field is “Australia”.

Conditional validation of state field

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