Tuesday 31 January 2012

Convert Website to Web Application in VS2008

I had some major speed issues with building a VS2008 solution today. The solution was originally started as a website rather than an application and the main hang up was with the "Validating Web Site" part of the build, it was taking several minutes.

So I decided to try and convert the whole thing to an Application and found the following article, follow the workaround steps.

http://gurustop.net/blog/2008/08/03/converting-vs-2008-website-to-web-application/

One other thing I had to do was to rename the new project after I had deleted the old one. I managed to change the name of the folder it was in, the project, assembly name and default namespace without issue.

The problem I was expecting was that TortoiseSVN would get it's knickers in a twist over the changing of folder names etc but actually after I had renamed my new folder to the same name as the original Subversion just saw that as a change to the folder rather than a new one and everything from mine and two other developer's machines committed/updated fine.

Phew! Glad we don't have to that everyday but amazingly went off without a hitch!

Wednesday 25 January 2012

Get to the top of a Twitter feed trick


Just a quick trick on Twitter for you. 

"S40" was trending this morning because of Nokia selling 1.5 billion S40 phones but if you click on it to view all the tweets then, because of his retweets, you get this bloke talking about a guy and his Volvo S40 coming up top even though his tweet was 13 hours ago!