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Umbraco DatePicker – Unknown server tag

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 [...]

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Take control of your website by implementing a Content Management System (CMS)

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 [...]

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New Custom Wordpress Theme for DontBuyThisManAPint.com

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 [...]

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Adding jQuery to a custom Wordpress theme

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 [...]

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Convert HTML to Plain Text in C# using Markdown

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.

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SmtpClient does not gracefully close the underlying TCP/IP connection

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 [...]

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Shortcut to Implement Abstract Class or Interface in Visual Studio

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.

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Media Sorter for Umbraco

The package essentially adds a new context menu item to the Umbraco CMS dashboard to allow media items to be sorted alphanumerically. The Media Sorter is something I originally developed to save myself and my clients time when working with large media repositories in Umbraco.

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ERROR CREATING CONTROL FOR NODETYPE: Media

I have just finished another upgrade from umbraco 3.06 to v4.0.2.1 and hit a snag whereby whenever a user attempted to add a new media item after the upgrade they were presented with the exception: “ERROR CREATING CONTROL FOR NODETYPE: Media”

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Update Application Tree Package Action for Umbraco

I have recently been working on another package for the Umbraco CMS. During the course of packaging the extension I hit a problem with the existing package actions that were available via the core and the PackageActionContrib project.

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