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Tim Gaunt

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

Search every table and field in a SQL Server Database Updated

As some of my blog posts are a little out of date, I thought I would spend some time updating the most popular ones. As I use this script on a regular basis and there was an error with the original posting, I thought I'd update it with

CodeGarden 09 Open Space Minutes - Space 1: How to sell Umbraco

It's taken some time to get here and there's still more to add as I think this is a pretty big topic but I thought I'd get started. I wanted to keep the session more focused on the selling points of Umbraco and how

CodeGarden 09 Open Space Minutes -Space 2: Exception Handling in Umbraco

Those of you lucky enough to go to CodeGarden '09 you'll know the format of the Open Space already but for those of you who didn't, Open Space is the time that the attendees are invited to talk about something they're interested in

Store common AppSettings in the web.config and an external file (configSource vs. file)

I've started using Rick Strahl's wwAppConfiguration to allow easier access to application constants and one thing that's been bugging me is that it doesn't play nice with configSource -which we update with web deployment projects to specify Development/Staging/Live settings. The

C# FileInfo.MoveTo Cannot create a file when that file already exists exception

This was one of those irritating errors that you get when you're trying to do something quickly before you go home and you can't for the life of you fathom the issue. I had the following code (simple enough): FileInfo f = new FileInfo("##File'