On 11.02.09, In Umbraco, by Simon Dingley
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 [...]
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.
On 09.21.09, In Umbraco, by Simon Dingley
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.
On 09.07.09, In Umbraco, by Simon Dingley
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”
On 08.23.09, In Umbraco, by Simon Dingley
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.
On 07.14.09, In jQuery, by Simon Dingley
Working on a project this morning and had some trouble finding a way to output the label for a checked radio button input control so thought I would share it in case it is of any use to someone else:
Always interested to hear of any alternative/improved methods of achieving the same goal?
On 06.19.09, In Umbraco, by Simon Dingley
When Umbraco 4 was first released I had issues with 2 of the upgrades from v3 in that the templates disappeared from the UI and clicking on any of the DocumentTypes resulted in an exception taking the form of “No node exists with id ’1040′”. Today I was working on the site again and it [...]
On 06.18.09, In Umbraco, by Simon Dingley
In a project I am currently working on there is a facility for Umbraco users to export Membership and Profile data. As part of the export the client also wanted to include the groups a member belongs to and here is how I achieved it, I hope it is of use to someone else.
On 04.23.09, In SQL, by Simon Dingley
Script errors when using Taskpad view in Enterprise Manager for SQL Server 2000
On 03.31.09, In Umbraco, by Simon Dingley
In an ongoing project I am working on I needed to adapt a custom user control that was being used as a DataType in Umbraco. I needed to locate the nearest node that had a specific property set and default the selected value of my control to the value of the property in the parent document.
