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Tim Gaunt

Getting started with uCommerce

I thought seeing as uCommerce is now an actual product I would start to overview an install/configuration of uCommerce assuming no prior knowledge of uCommerce. Firstly, let me start of by saying that once you've got your head around uCommerce and some of it's complexities,

Using Linq and Extension Methods to chunk large data sets

Ever needed to take a large list and split it into smaller subsets of data for processing? Well this is the Extension Method for you. Tonight we had to split a small dataset (500 items) into even smaller sets of 10 so the provider’s web service wouldn’t timeout.

Automatically add a show and hide link to any object with jQuery

There are plenty of tutorials around that show you how to show or hide a div with jQuery, you can find a load on Google but I wanted something that was re-usable throughout our projects so I created the addShowHideLink jQuery plugin. We’ve been using it across a few

Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname when sending emails

Simple tip this afternoon. You may have got the following error when sending emails through ASP.Net’s built in mail server before: From: postmaster@YourWebserversName [mailto:postmaster@YourWebserversName] Sent: 25 June 2010 13:22 To: sender@sendingdomainname.com Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) This is an automatically generated Delivery

Set Umbraco Folder Permissions with Powershell

Update available: I've updated this script to make it more copy/past. You can read the better way to set Umbraco folder permissions with PowerShell here. If you're not configuring Umbraco through a web installer, you've had your installs in place for years and

Stop jQuery.hide() showing the elements on page load

This is a great little tip that Andy Higgs shared with me a couple of months ago while we were developing Crisis Cover. If you write jQuery that hides the div when the user has JavaScript enabled, you can avoid the divs all being shown while the page loads by

Error 11: An error occurred when merging assemblies: ILMerge.Merge: ERROR!!: Duplicate type 'xyz' found in assembly 'App_Web_rh2sxhkc'. aspnet_merge

You may have come across this error once or twice while deploying your project if you develop using Web Deployment Projects. It's usually caused when you copy and paste a page and forget to update both the page declaration and code behind file. But the website builds!?! You

The Umbraco 1 question questionnaire results

A while ago I posted a quick one question questionnaire to gauge how much people were charging for the "average" Umbraco install. This was partially to settle an internal debate but also for an post I've not had time to post yet so in the meantime

Collapse all Solution Explorer items in Visual Studio 2010

Ever wanted to be able to collapse all items within Visual Studio's solution window? This is a nifty little Visual Studio macro that I came across a few years ago and have been using successfully in Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008 and now in the Visual Studio