When your designer.cs or designer.vb file gets corrupted, you can regenerate its contents by following the three simple instructions in this tip, illustrated with screenshots — read article
Tip: Solving error “Could not load type” in Visual Studio
If you change from ASP.NET Website to an ASP.NET Web Application, or if you add some external aspx, ascx or master pages, you can receive the Could not load type error. Before you start banging your head against the wall, read on for a simple solution: change attribute CodeBehind in CodeFile in the header of your asp.net file — read article
Generation of designer file failed, unable to create type telerik RadScriptManager
You may get the following warning when you take over someones project where Telerik controls are used, and you haven’t installed Telerik yourself:
Generation of designer file failed: Unable to create type 'telerik:RadScriptManager' ... [snip]. This article shows how you can simply solve this problem — read article
PHP Windows install: Unable to load dynamic library php_mssql.dll, php_pspell.dll etc
Need a solution for the following or similar startup bugs: "PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'c:\\php_path\\ext\\php_libname.dll' -- The specified module could not be found... [snip]? The errors appear after you do a default installation of Apache 2.x, 2.2.x or IIS with PHP 4 and 5. Many articles and bug reports have been devoted to this subject, but none covers a full solution and the PHP community has left this problem in the Setup for 8 years. This article shows you how to tackle this nasty beast — read article
Fix for “Leading Whitespace Bug” in Syntaxhighlighter Evolved for WordPress
Complete description of how to work with the events of TinyMCE to resolve layout issues like — in this case — the loosing whitespace on switching edit modes bug of the SyntaxHighlighter WP plugin. (update: new version of SH contains my fix) — read article
Sudden empty / blank page for large posts with WordPress
After writing a large blog post you suddenly stare at an empty page. Shortening your post seems the only solution(!) but you really don’t want to abbreviate your post for the benefit of buggy WordPress… This post explains how changing a single line in PHP.INI, plus alternative solutions, can save your day today, tomorrow
and thereon after — read article
In Depth: determine Debug or Release build for type, method, variable or assembly
Ready made code, project and assembly for you to download to easily determine when your code is running in Debug or Release mode in all and any circumstances. No exceptions! In depth article on why it is so hard and what you can do yourself, full source code included as download — read article
In Depth: A definitive guide to .NET user control’s usage mode: DesignMode or UserMode
This article provides an in-depth view plus complete solution to the problems you face when you want a user control to behave differently in Design Mode vs User Mode. A professional cross-platform solution where other solutions have failed — read article