If, like me, you sometimes end up with a corrupted designer file in Visual Studio, the best way to recreate it is as follows:
- Delete the current .designer file
- Right click the .aspx file and select “Convert to Web Application”
And that’s it, the file should be recreated.
I know this blog hasn’t been up for long, but I had already begun to dislike the previous theme (Scrapbook) as I felt there was too much wasted space at the top causing users to have to scroll down to read any content. I know that in this day and age most people have larger screens and higher resolutions, but still.
Anyway, this morning whilst updating WordPress to the latest version, 2.8.5, I also decided to look for another theme and came across Grid Focus by Derek Punsalan at 5THIRTYONE. I liked the clean, content focused layout and after installing it, was amazed at the flexibility of the widgets that can be used, so I’m sure it’ll be here to stay, at least for a while!
Let me know what you think?
Recently I had the need to access and read in data from the old school style ini file. I was struggling to find the best way to go about doing this, until I came across this blog post by Gerhard Stephan. In it, he describes how to attach to the Windows KERNEL32.dll file and use the Windows functions GetPrivateProfileString and WritePrivateProfileString to read from and write to Windows ini files.
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