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 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 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.
On 02.15.09, In Umbraco, by Simon Dingley
Yet another problem on an Umbraco v4.0 site I am working on currently. The site will be hosted on a VPS with Plesk as mentioned in an earlier post, I needed to restore a backup of the remote database locally but after restoring it my local development copy throws the exception “Invalid object name ‘umbracoUser”. [...]
On 02.09.09, In Umbraco, by Simon Dingley
A project I am working on currently is hosted on a VPS with a Plesk control panel. When attempting to upgrade from RC3 to the final release the process kept getting stuck on the database check stage as it was trying to write to the web.config but it appears it needs to write a temporary [...]
On 01.15.09, In Umbraco, by Simon Dingley
A project I am currently working on is based on the soon to be launched Umbraco v4 and as I will be running it on a new server I wanted to use the lastest and greatest version of the .Net framework. I didn’t get off to a great start as the ASP.NET AJAX references in [...]
