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As some of my blog posts are a little out of date, I thought I would spend some time updating the most popular ones.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'

Fix missing JavaScript file when you rename the Umbraco admin directory

The Error For those of you who have tried to rename your Umbraco installation directory to something other than the default /umbraco/ you'll have found that TreeInit.aspx throws a JavaScript error along the lines of: Message: Object expected Line: 1 Char: 4236 Code: 0 URI: http://www.

Maplin loses it’s way with it’s GPS

This came through in my email today and it made me smile:

Quick ASP.Net tip: Half your page size in ASP.Net instantly

Ok it might be a little less than half side but it's near enough. I've been sitting on this for a while and needed to reference it for someone so I thought I'd post quickly about it. One of the most common complaints about

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