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ASP.NET Control Adapters

Make ASP.NET controls generate the HTML you want, using Control Adapters.

Color Palette Tools

Also found these color palette tools on Stefano Mazzocchi’s blog:

• NASA color picker
• COLOURlovers is a resource that monitors and influences color trends. This site has some cool patterns too.
  

IE7 and IE8 javascript libraries for CSS support

Read Stefano Mazzocchi’s blog entry "Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design" for some CSS tips, including:

IE7 and IE8 javascript libraries to make all IE browsers behave like IE7/IE8 would:

• http://ie7-js.googlecode.com/svn/version/2.0(beta3)/IE7.js
• http://ie7-js.googlecode.com/svn/version/2.0(beta3)/IE8.js

Freebase Parallax

Learned about Freebase and Parallax from Stefano Mazzocchi’s blog entry: "Freebase Parallax: data browsing as you never thought possible". Like doing SQL queries on search engine results. Pretty cool.

Blogger tag cloud

Earlier, I wrote about changing the Labels widget to show a tag cloud instead of a list, thanks to code from frivmo.com.
Today (10/29/2008) I noticed that somehow that code from frivmo stopped working. So I switched to code from here.

Cannot exclude portion of page from Google indexing

Google doesn't have an html tag that will let you exclude portions of your web page from being indexed (discussion here). Would be nice to have something like this to wrap around common sections, like the menu, footer, secondary navigation, etc.

VSS says "binary files differ" on web.config and xslt files

On Visual Sourcesafe (VSS), the comparison tool will say "binary files differ" for web.config or *.xslt files if the file's properties have it set at type=binary. To change that, right-click on the file on VSS, view the properties (General tab), and set the type=text.
See notes.

VS2008 compile error: cannot find class name

If the project was converted from VS2003 to VS2005 or VS2008, you can get a compile error on Global.asax and various controls and forms.

Check if the class is declared as a partial class. If yes, then see if the asax (or ascx) is using "Codebehind". Try changing that to "Codefile".

Other notes here. And notes about Global.asax in ASP.NET 2.0.

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