Property bag

It's basically a hashtable in SharePoint, it stores key - value pair that you can access in your code behind; you can install the following wsp from codeplex to view it from your site settings.

Property bag

once downloaded run this powershell to install it

Add-SPSolution -LiteralPath C:\Users\YOURUSER\Downloads\PropertyBagSettings2010.wsp

Install-SPSolution -Identity PropertyBagSettings2010.wsp -GACDeployment

with your property bag installed navigate to your site setting and notice that under Site Administration there's a new link Property bag settings

when clicked on, this will let you view, add, edit, and remove different entries, try not to wreck anything.

now this is where we like to connection strings, generally we add them on feature activating

public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)

{

    using (SPWeb currentWeb = ((SPSite)properties.Feature.Parent).RootWeb)

    {

        if (!currentWeb.AllProperties.ContainsKey("spm_ConnectionString"))

        {

            currentWeb.AllProperties["spm_ConnectionString"] = SPM_CONNECTIONSTRING;

            currentWeb.Update();

            currentWeb.Properties.Update();

        }

    }

}

and remove them on feature deactivating

public override void FeatureDeactivating(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)

{

    using (SPWeb currentWeb = ((SPSite)properties.Feature.Parent).RootWeb)

    {

        if (currentWeb.AllProperties.ContainsKey("spm_ConnectionString"))

        {

            currentWeb.AllProperties.Remove("spm_ConnectionString");

            currentWeb.Update();

            currentWeb.Properties.Update();

        }

    }

}

now keep in mind that SPM_CONNECTIONSTRING is just a constant string that as the name insinuates is a connection string.

Canadian Sin Regex

Regex is a two fold problem:

• the first is that you have a problem
• the second is that your problem can be solved using regex

What do I mean by this? well regex is one of those things that you're not going to use very often so it's not really worth the effort to learn it 100% but just enough to get what you need done and forget it by the time you need it again, much like calculus.

Anyway this is a pretty solid site to find what you need Regex Library.

but this is what I use to verify a Canadian sin "^\d{3}(\s?|[-]?)\d{3}(\s?|[-]?)\d{3}$"

It's got you covered for 123123123, 123 123 123, 123-123-123

to use it with an input box use a combination of the pattern and title attributes

<input id = "SIN_TXT" name="SIN_TXT" type ="text" title="6 digit Canadain Social Insurence Number"  pattern="^\d{3}(\s?|[-]?)\d{3}(\s?|[-]?)\d{3}$" placeholder="### ### ###" />

if you are a poor soul that has to support a lower end browser such as ie8 then attach it using javascript

function validateSIN(sinString)
{
    var sinPattern = /^\d{3}(\s?|[-]?)\d{3}(\s?|[-]?)\d{3}$/;
    return sinPattern.test(sinString);
}

Now that you've validated that the user is submitting a 9 digit number, lets confirm that it is in fact a SIN and not just 9 random digits, check out this Validate Sin Number.

here's the algorithm I use:

function verifySIN(SIN) {
    var sinArray = SIN.replace(/\W/g, '')
    var t = 0;
    if (sinArray.length != 9)
        return false;

    for (x in sinArray) {
        var p = 0;
        t += (p = (x % 2 + 1) * sinArray[x]) > 9 ? (p + (p % 10 * 9)) / 10 : p;
    }

    return t % 10 === 0;
}