Archived articles - August 2014

When LINQ was announced in .NET framework 3.5 I was a bit skeptic because it look a bit odd to me on the first look. Writing queries in C#, just did not look right to me. Anyway, not all the things introduced in .NET had long life...read more

Recently I had to develop a form on a page which loads secondary dropdown list items based on selection in a primary dropdown list. Because secondary list items are basically children elements of the one selected in primary I just had to run through all children and just return text-value pair object to JavaScript to populate secondary dropdown list. ... read more

Recently I wrote an article about workaround for storing lists in Umbraco. I did some googling and Umbraco API exploring since then I found another solution for lists in Umbraco. This solution is relying to Umbraco Dictionary...read more

Using HttpWebRequest to fetch some data in your code from web is the easiest way to do it. However some web locations have restrictions to all only requests which come from browsers. Performing a normal HttpWebRequest will return 403 status code (HTTP 403 - Wikipedia) which means forbidden access...read more

Umbraco implementation of localized values is based on Dictionary which is in settings section of Umbraco back-end. This works pretty fine in case you need to display only string values but does not work localized lists. For example you might want to have country list for your contact form on your website...read more

In situations where distance between two geo coordinates needs to be found most of the people are using mathematical function to do this. However there is a major disadvantage in using this method. ...read more

When you are developing a back-end web application, you might want to restrict access only to people who are working in the company which is maintaining the content or any other operations in the back-end and allowing public access only for the public, usually read-only content. This means you still have to leave some parts of your application public and for some you need to restrict access for the people outside of a network (certain IP range). ...read more

Umbraco is a great CMS, it simple, easily extendible and most important it is free. However, it is not build for large scale websites, since presentation and back-end are on the same machine and all published content is stored in AppData/umbraco.config file. This is good because it can be easily cached and database read is reduced...read more

For pretty much every website I built in Umbraco, there is some sort of title property for page document type. Either it is a title for navigation in breadcrumbs or menu or main h1 page title. Usually some of these properties need to be mandatory and in most cases they are the same as the name of the node in content, but still, you have to keep ability to override the value with these properties. ...read more