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. Member [...]

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.

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”. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]