Based on a recent experience and a lot of wasted time, this post details why you really should set the validation group on validation controls that you add to your custom Umbraco user controls.

I have recently needed to use the Umbraco datePicker control in a usercontrol I was creating however I kept getting presented with an “Unknown server tag ‘umbraco:datePicker” exception. After some digging around in the Umbraco Source it is confusingly not in the assembly I would have expected but it was in fact located in the [...]

I was recently working in a clients office where they have very little IT Support and they had a new member of staff on board without a PC. The person that setup the IT infrastructure at the beginning had left a hard drive with an image and a CD to copy the image to any [...]

There was a time not so long ago, when website developers were treated with almost as much reverence as pilots and surgeons. After all, without a website, your business was just not a player, non-existent, invisible to the world. No one had any idea as to what they did, or how they did it, just [...]

I was contacted over the christmas and new year by Actually Digital to help out one of their clients who had been let down by another developer. The brief was clear and simple, to develop a custom WordPress theme from a design they had provided and to turn it around within 24 hours. I took up [...]

I have been doing a little bit of WordPress work recently and as a result I have been working on custom themes for WordPress. In one particular theme I required that jQuery be loaded into the template and stumbled across the following wp_enqueue_script function built into wordpress. The function essentially adds a safe method of [...]

Creating a plain-text version of HTML that is suitable to be sent out as the text part of a multi-part email. Using C# and XSLT I have developed a working solution to the problem with help from a third party markdown XSLT file.

Some months back Tim Geyssens was kind enough to send me the source for his MailEngine addition to Umbraco before he released it on his blog. I made some customisations to the source to allow users to select templates and changed the filtering options slightly but other than that it worked jut fine for what [...]

I have recently been working on my professional profile on-line and have published my Prolific Notion Facebook page under my trading name of Prolific Notion. I would of course appreciate any followers that might be interested in my work or my services so head on over there now and become a fan! I don’t think I can [...]

A great time saving shortcut in Visual Studio to implement an Abstract Class or Interface in Visual Studio. Using the shortcut will populate all of the abstract class method signatures for you.