Generating 'FAQ Article xxx' links

In the website, i often refer to or cross-reference FAQ Articles. In general, they are linked as "FAQ Article XXX" which will open the link in the browser when clicked.

To ease development and page generation, I use a shortcut to generate these links - I code the FAQ Article number between square brackets [[ ]], which then generates a hyperlink and also adds a tooltip on the link with the title of the article.

ie, [[340]] turns into: FAQ Article 340.

To do this, I use Response.Filter in the Global.asax to utilise some code I found at http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/WhitespaceFilter.asp

Global.asax:

Sub Application_BeginRequest(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
 If Not Request.Url.PathAndQuery.ToLower.IndexOf(".aspx") = -1 Then
  Response.Filter = New MyHttpFilter(Response.Filter)
 End If
End Sub

The filter itself is as above from the codeproject site. I change the 'Write' function though with my own customization.

Public Overrides Sub Write(ByVal MyBuffer() As Byte, _
     ByVal offset As Integer, ByVal count As Integer)
 Dim data(count) As Byte
 Buffer.BlockCopy(MyBuffer, offset, data, 0, count)
 Dim s As String = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(data)
 Dim myDelegate As New MatchEvaluator(AddressOf MatchHandler)
 Dim pattern As String = "\[\[(\d{2,})\]\]"
 Dim re As New Regex(pattern, RegexOptions.Multiline _
          Or RegexOptions.IgnoreCase)
 s = re.Replace(s, myDelegate)
 ' Finally, we spit out what we have done.
 Dim outdata() As Byte = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(s)
 _sink.Write(outdata, 0, outdata.GetLength(0))
End Sub 'Write

Private Function MatchHandler(ByVal m As Match) As String
 Dim mFaqId As String
 Dim faqTitle As String = ""
        Dim returnString as string = "<a "
 mFaqId = m.Groups(1).Value
 Try
  Dim c As New cacheClass
  Dim dv As DataView
  dv = c.getfaqList()
  dv.RowFilter = "id = '" & mFaqId & "'"
  faqTitle = CStr(dv.Item(0).Item("title")).Replace(Chr(34), "''")
 Catch ex As Exception
 End Try
        returnString += "title=" & Chr(34) & faqTitle & Chr(34)
        returnString += " href=" & Chr(34) & "/faq/article/" & _
              mFaqId & ".aspx" & Chr(34) & " >"
        returnString += "FAQ Article " & mFaqId & "</a>"
 Return returnString
End Function

Note how it uses the regular expression to find a match and make the change.

The whole aim is to reduce the time I spend on the site - it does that nicely!