Archive for the tag 'Programming'

Nov 12 2008

Visual Studio 2008 Settings

Published by nick under Work

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 [...]

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Nov 06 2008

The ASP.NET ViewState…

Published by nick under Work

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.

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Oct 31 2008

Writing Date to Excel from ASP.NET and C#

Published by nick under Work

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.

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