“HttpContext.Current.Profile is null in iis7

Fixed by adding an additional attribute to the modules section in system.webserver

“Getting web config settings when in design mode in Visual Studio

“Converting a data column into comma separated string

The for xml auto works very nicely

I received some translated pdfs from Taiwan just now. They opened up ok in Adobe Acrobat & Adobe Reader but they failed to open (or failed to display the Chinese text) in other programs. I find the best way to ‘clean’ the PDFs is to print to Adobe PDF printer from Reader/Acrobat. It recreates the file but only with the content that was sent to the printer. The result still recognises text and images but as the new file has been created from scratch it can be opened in other programs.

To bulk do this:

1. Make sure you set Adobe PDF driver Printing Preferences to what you want (including setting a destination folder)
2. In Acrobat, in Advanced Menu > Document processing > Batch processing you can run a batch sequence that will print all the files in a specified folder.

Sweet!

“CSS targetting of IE6 and IE7

Im not interested in pre IE6 but we still have 15% of visits from IE6. This tip (using * and _ before css properties) stops you from having to create separate style sheets or using conditional formatting