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A mixture of musings on web design & development, history, and life

Recreating a .designer file in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

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.

New theme for iandevlin.com/blog

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?