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. […]
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Från 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 moreCoding my own automated web site monitoring with Google Apps Script and a Spreadsheet
May 17, 2011 3 Comments
There are a great deal of good Web site monitoring and testing services out there. I’ve tested a few of them, but I needed two things I did not find (yet). 1) Good programmability and 2) Familiar presentation of the result in a Spreadsheet manner. First I thought I could to create some scripts on […]
Read moreSending emails with a mailing list provider (Umbraco, Razor and Mad Mimi)
March 21, 2011 1 Comment
I wanted to use a mailing list provider for some programmatically composed emails like account confirmations and welcome messages. My needs is pretty basic, a layout with a banner, a header and a html body text. To be sent to whoever, whenever. Besides of some familiar provider names, I recently heard about a service called […]
Read moreFrom zero to a live installation of Umbraco in 30 minutes (for beginners)
March 19, 2011 0 Comments
“Umbraco is a free, open-source web cms built on the Microsoft ASP.NET Framework. It is easy to use, simple to understand, and is highly extensible using industry-standard languages and patterns such as HTML, CSS, jQuery, and C#.” Using the new, and also free, web development tool WebMatrix from Microsoft it’s now easier than ever to […]
Read moreAjax-enabled search in Umbraco (using Examine and Razor)
March 15, 2011 15 Comments
I am about to implement an ajax-enabled search for an Umbraco site. Writing the prototype was quick (and fun) so I thought I’d share it. Here goes: To make it work I have this search macro (run from my search page template): Search.cshtml: Note that the script is using jQuery, which you will need to […]
Read moreBetter structure for your Umbraco Razor scripts with RenderPage and Global helpers
March 11, 2011 7 Comments
Together with Razor in Umbraco 4.7 comes a bunch of useful things that’s included in the WebPages assemblies. RenderPage is one of those things. It’s simply rendering another Razor script at the call: The other script runs in the same page and umbraco macro context which means it has access to Model as well as […]
Read moreAn ordinary WebMatrix app in an Umbraco subfolder
March 3, 2011 0 Comments
I have an ordinary WebMatrix app with a bunch of .cshtml’s, a SQL CE database, some nuget dlls and helpers. And now after very little effort I seem to be able to run it beautifully together with an Umbraco 4.7 site. I still need to test it more thoroughly but initial tests have been running […]
Read moreFun with Umbraco : Using the webpages chart helper
February 22, 2011 0 Comments
There’s a whole lot of power included in Umbraco out of the box. Here’s a quick demo of how to create a Chart just with a few lines of code. I’m using the “Chart helper”. The charting component is in the .net core and the helper is in System.Web.Helpers.dll which is now included in Umbraco […]
Read morePlaying with Razor in Umbraco : an old skool contact form
January 4, 2011 4 Comments
This is clearly not the way a state of the art contact form should be made in Umbraco. But to learn and have fun with the new Razor possibilities I created a very basic contact form: Edit : please also see this newer article about how to make a simple contact form with better code […]
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