Every now and then I would get an error “An exception occurred while trying to create an instance of…” when trying to open a .aspx page. This solved it (from DotNetJunkies):Tip #1: Debug Open the project’s properties dialog, set the debug mode to “program”, apply, set “start application” to your VS.Net IDE (“devenv.exe” in the…

If you don’t know any better, if you slap a datagrid on your form, it will look great in IE, but open it in firefox, and you get these black gridlines.

I so got nailed on this.

In a continuing saga of things that piss me off…(which really means:

Why in THE WORLD, must I have properties in my object in order to see them in a DataGrid? For instance, if I create collection Wookies, each wookie better have a: private m_hairColor; public string HairColor { get{return m_hairColor;} set{m_hairColor = value;} } and not just public string HairColor; or it will give you some…

I can’t believe I never took the time on this, but this is pretty handy to put focus on a field. I just put in my my Page Base class. I tried putting it here, but the damn .Text engine keeps messing up my formatting, so check out Roger’s.

There are by some estimates more than a million weblogs. But most of them get no visibility in search engines. Only a few “A-List” blogs get into the top search engine results for a given topic, while the majority of blogs just don’t get noticed. The reason is that the smaller blogs don’t have enough…