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By nick, November 12, 2008 6:57 pm

Right, I recently discovered some nice looking colour themes for Visual Studio 2008.

So, i’ve decided to share. I can’t be bothered to put a screen shot up, so if you want to see it you’ll just have to try it. Basically, it’s a dark colour scheme. Dark blue background, and brightly coloured text (but not so much so that it blinds you!). Anyway, point is i like to use it and i’m sharing.

VS2008 Colour Scheme VS2008 Colours and Editor Settings

There are two files – one of them contains my Text Editor settings as well as the Colour Scheme settings. The other is just the colour scheme. Enjoy.

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By nick, November 6, 2008 3:42 pm

The ViewState in ASP.Net is one of those weird and wonderful things that Microsoft obviously thought was a good idea at the time. Granted, it is quite useful but as with all things like that, it comes with a price – and a fairly hefty one at that if not used sensibly. Continue reading 'The ASP.NET ViewState…'»

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By nick, October 31, 2008 11:49 am

Ok, so i’ve just been working on outputting data from an ASP.NET based web app into an Excel Spreadsheet. I’m not going to go into the details of how to do that, but only how to avoid one little problem i encountered.
Continue reading 'Writing Date to Excel from ASP.NET and C#'»