Text Extraction using Natural Language Processing

A few months ago I was asked to look into an email processing problem. We needed to extract event related information from consumer-originated email. As a traditional programmer the first instinct was to think in terms of regular expressions and lookup tables! Experience quickly tempered that thought and I decided to look at Natural Language Processing.
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Common Myth Regarding ViewState in ASP.NET

Through this article I want to defeat a very common misconception about ViewState. Most ASP.NET developers think that the ASP.NET ViewState is responsible for holding the values of controls such as TextBoxes so that they are retained even after postback.

But that is not the case!
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