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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

Congratulations, you've installed dasBlog with Web Deploy!

After logging in, be sure to visit all the options under Configuration in the Admin Menu Bar above. There are 26 themes to choose from, and you can also create your own.

Visual Studio Tip of the day: Open files/folders in Windows Explorer

A little irritation/time consuming process when you're working with multiple projects on multiple drives/SVN repos/directories is to open the current file's location within Windows Explorer. If you weren't already aware, you can do this from most projects/files by right clicking

Advanced Error Reporting in Umbraco, dasBlog and other ASP.Net sites

If you've been following my blog you'll know that I've been raving about error reporting within ASP.Net (you can see my ASP.Net Error Reporting category for a couple of them if you like) but until now it's been limited to

No hidden charges

I've had a couple of situations recently where clients have suggesting "tricking" the user into either remaining subscribed to a service i.e. a mailing list or rammed some sales info down their throat whereas we advise to go the oposite direction -if someone doesn'

Recent comments macro for DasBlog

One of the issues I had with John Forsythe's Recent Comments macro for DasBlog was that the dasBlog recent comments weren't ordered by date (descending). I found that as people commented on older posts they were getting buried which irritated me as many were very still

Can Twitter be a bad thing for your business?

There's going to be a series of articles shortly that go into my attempts of using social networking to build your business but I thought I'd get this one out into the blogosphere first. What with the recent onslaught of "celebrities" onto Twitter such