I’ve been using Umbraco 4 for a good while and am already sold on the CMS. I’ve built and are maintaining a few sites and are happy with most of the Umbraco functionality. Now Umbraco 5 (aka Jupiter) is knocking at the door, RC2 was just released, and it looks really promising. The whole CMS [...]
Read moreUsing SignalR with Umbraco to broadcast messages (or chat) [15 minutes]
November 21, 2011
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My goal with this is to have a way to send messages from running tasks to me (and other admins) using a broadcast method … aswell as have some fun playing with SignalR which looks really cool . Just by adding the SignalR dll and js files and some minimal code you’ll get started with [...]
Read moreSeparating html and logic in Razor (WebPages or Umbraco macroscript)
November 6, 2011
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Mixing logic and html can easily end up with messy, hard-to-maintain code. In MVC it’s easy to separate the parts with the controller / view-separation. But how to do it nicely in WebPages or in an Umbraco macroscript? Ultimately I want my Razor to be free from variable assignments other than for loop iterators function [...]
Read moreA nice deploy approach : Umbraco 5 alpha at AppHarbor [experimental]
November 5, 2011
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AppHarbor is an interesting service that can deploy and host an Asp.Net application really easy. They use the slogan “Azure done right”. I’m still in an experimental mode with it. But it passed my “if I cannot get this going in less than 1 hour I’ll skip it”- test easily. Azure didn’t. The pricing is [...]
Read moreA Razor application within an Umbraco site (notes from a current project)
October 27, 2011
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We’re in the middle of re-developing a web application that previously was made as an asp.net Webforms app. The current requirements is to integrate the application into an Umbraco 4.7 site, to use a new design (delivered as a html, CSS & js prototype) as well as to change some of the underlying database workings. [...]
Read moreA playful look at WebSockets – with the help of the XSockets library
October 14, 2011
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What’s the best way to spend a friday night to saturday afternoon, in the city of Sundsvall, Sweden? What about coding some WebSockets together with others like minded (+ having one or two sponsored beers)? In the end of september team XSockets and XLent hosted such an event and I was happy to be able [...]
Read moreFrån noll till en komplett webbplats med Umbraco CMS på mindre än en timme
August 8, 2011
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Umbraco är ett gratis opensource-CMS byggt på Microsofts ASP.NET ramverk. Det är byggt för att vara lätt att förstå och använda, samt enkelt att bygga ut. Det är ett av de 3 mest populära nedladdade programvarupaketen i Microsofts Web Platform Installer och det används över hela världen för i stort sett alla typer av webbplatser. [...]
Read morePlaying with EntityFramework Code First and “migrations” [5 minutes]
August 1, 2011
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When EF 4 with CodeFirst came I was disappointed with the lack of automatic schema updates. Now a first version of “migrations” has arrived, which made me re-look at EF CodeFirst and make a small experiment – I was in a hurry and pretty sloppy, not reading anything more than briefly on this Scott Hanselman [...]
Read moreMaking the MVC3 Model independent of data source (using Ninject) [beginners]
July 25, 2011
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Here are three “rules” I try to adopt to in my relearning MVC3 app: The Views should not do anything else than display the data. The Controllers should (on get’s) only be responsible for serving the right viewmodel to the right view for the particular request. The Models should not depend on one particular source [...]
Read moreAdding a Razor View to our Hello World MVC3-app [beginners]
July 25, 2011
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In my previous post I made an example of how to write a very light weight MVC3 app with only one file (well, besides the web.config and global.asax). In this post I’ll add a Razor view as simply as possible. The Razor view file requires us to add a little bit of structure to our [...]
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