Check a URL exist or not using C#

static bool CheckURL(String url)
{
if(String.IsNullOrEmpty(url))
return false;

WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url);

try
{
HttpWebResponse res = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;

if (res.StatusDescription == "OK")
return true;
}
catch
{
}

return false;
}

Creating a zip file using C#

Using the System.IO.Compression namespace in Codeplex a classlibrary project is going on name DotNetZip

The class library has a ZipFile class. Using this, you can create zip files using the below code

ZipFile zip= new ZipFile("MyNewZip.zip");

zip.AddDirectory("My Pictures", true); // AddDirectory recurses subdirectories

zip.Save();

Encyption/Decryption in C# and Java

C# Code


string Decrypt(string textToDecrypt, string key)
{
RijndaelManaged rijndaelCipher = new RijndaelManaged();
rijndaelCipher.Mode = CipherMode.CBC;
rijndaelCipher.Padding = PaddingMode.PKCS7;

rijndaelCipher.KeySize = 0x80;
rijndaelCipher.BlockSize = 0x80;
byte[] encryptedData = Convert.FromBase64String(textToDecrypt);
byte[] pwdBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(key);
byte[] keyBytes = new byte[0x10];
int len = pwdBytes.Length;
if (len > keyBytes.Length)
{
len = keyBytes.Length;
}
Array.Copy(pwdBytes, keyBytes, len);
rijndaelCipher.Key = keyBytes;
rijndaelCipher.IV = keyBytes;
byte[] plainText = rijndaelCipher.CreateDecryptor().TransformFinalBlock(encryptedData, 0, encryptedData.Length);
return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(plainText);
}

string Encrypt(string textToEncrypt, string key)
{
RijndaelManaged rijndaelCipher = new RijndaelManaged();
rijndaelCipher.Mode = CipherMode.CBC;
rijndaelCipher.Padding = PaddingMode.PKCS7;

rijndaelCipher.KeySize = 0x80;
rijndaelCipher.BlockSize = 0x80;
byte[] pwdBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(key);
byte[] keyBytes = new byte[0x10];
int len = pwdBytes.Length;
if (len > keyBytes.Length)
{
len = keyBytes.Length;
}
Array.Copy(pwdBytes, keyBytes, len);
rijndaelCipher.Key = keyBytes;
rijndaelCipher.IV = keyBytes;
ICryptoTransform transform = rijndaelCipher.CreateEncryptor();
byte[] plainText = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(textToEncrypt);
return Convert.ToBase64String(transform.TransformFinalBlock(plainText, 0, plainText.Length));
}


Java Code

String Decrypt(String text, String key) throws Exception{
Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding");
byte[] keyBytes= new byte[16];
byte[] b= key.getBytes("UTF-8");
int len= b.length;
if (len > keyBytes.length) len = keyBytes.length;
System.arraycopy(b, 0, keyBytes, 0, len);
SecretKeySpec keySpec = new SecretKeySpec(keyBytes, "AES");
IvParameterSpec ivSpec = new IvParameterSpec(keyBytes);
cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE,keySpec,ivSpec);

BASE64Decoder decoder = new BASE64Decoder();
byte [] results = cipher.doFinal(decoder.decodeBuffer(text));
return new String(results,"UTF-8");
}

String Encrypt(String text, String key)
throws Exception {
Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding");
byte[] keyBytes= new byte[16];
byte[] b= key.getBytes("UTF-8");
int len= b.length;
if (len > keyBytes.length) len = keyBytes.length;
System.arraycopy(b, 0, keyBytes, 0, len);
SecretKeySpec keySpec = new SecretKeySpec(keyBytes, "AES");
IvParameterSpec ivSpec = new IvParameterSpec(keyBytes);
cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE,keySpec,ivSpec);

byte[] results = cipher.doFinal(text.getBytes("UTF-8"));
BASE64Encoder encoder = new BASE64Encoder();
return encoder.encode(results);
}