This is another post, which uses Umbraco’s Request Pipeline to customize the backoffice – see my other post Using Umbraco’s Request Pipeline to Conceal Nodes. In some cases it is very useful to be able to use folders in Umbraco’s backoffice Read more…
The following tutorial will show you how to create an RSS Feed in an MVC installation of Umbraco. Using this approach you won’t need to create a template for the page and a macro as in the standard implementation: Setting Read more…
With its 6.1 release, Umbraco got some new API’s, which allow developers to tap in the logic that parses the URLs and retrieves content nodes – the Request Pipeline. Recenlty I had a use case where I needed to conceal Read more…
I had some trouble parsing the date strings created by Umbraco’s Date Picker to a System.DateTime object. Following is a short snippet, which does the trick: Note that content is an IPublishedContent object.
While working on an Umbraco project, I needed to add a feature, which allowed editors to log in the backoffice using accounts from Active Directory. The requirement was to allow only editors who belong to certain groups in the AD. Read more…
SharePoint 2010 provides a user friendly approach to applying custom fonts and colors to sites. There is a way to read the theme information from your code and make your solution blend with its host site. ThmxTheme The theme information Read more…
When working with JavaScript Client Object Model developers often need to debug the scripts in the browser. By default they are minified, which makes them almost impossible to understand and work with. The installation of SharePoint comes with two versions Read more…