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In Umbraco 6 new interface IApplicationHandler is introduced. By inheriting this interface in your class you can hook your custom methods to handle events which occur in Umbraco. The following two I use really often for controlling Umbraco behavior: ...read more

This article is about extending Umbraco back-end with custom button to which you can attach your custom click handlers and force Umbraco back-end to work according to your needs. ...read more

Google graph are really easy to use on website for the main reason that you do not need to maintain code and because it is free for use. Samples and documentation can be found at https://developers.google.com/chart/...read more

You all probably had to deal with certain js files for JQuery plug-in. Usually developers add reference to a js file in Master page (if using WebForms) on layout view (is using MVC). This practice is not so bad, because you have references maintained in one file, but bad thing is that all js file are being load even if none of then are used on the particular pages. ...read more

In case you want to add JQuery Ajax calls to your page, you would basically need to add one more page which will be invoked with Ajax call. In order to reduce number of physical pages you can reuse the same page, but make it act differently for normal GET/POST HTTP request and totally different for Ajax GET/POST HTTP request...read more

Sometime you need to determine whether your request is standard GET/POST request or Ajax POST/GET http request. This info is stored in request value isAjax or X-Requested-With. By checking these values of request you can easily determine whether http request is ajax or not. ...read more

Often during writing partial view for page you need to read value from property which is content or media picker. In order to get integer value you need to cast value acquired with GetPropertyValue method which is object type...read more