Building an Umbraco 7 backoffice extension – Part I
Umbraco (https://umbraco.com/) is a lean and powerful CMS built on top of current .NET technologies and Javascript frameworks. It provides developers with a varied and simple to use collection of...
Building an Umbraco 7 backoffice extension – Part III
The previous post (Part II) showed how to populate the content tree of a custom Umbraco backoffice section. This one presents a way for content managers to quickly handle each...
KendoUI Grid, OData, WebAPI and Entity Framework
In the latest project I was involved with, there was a need to present database tables data directly in the Umbraco's backoffice, where all CRUD operations must be supported....
Umbraco and Donut Output Cache
Donut Output Caching is a type of output caching where certain parts of a web page are not cached. It's a simple way of boosting your site performance!
ASP.NET doesn't provide...
Building an Umbraco 7 backoffice extension – Part II
The previous post (Building an Umbraco 7 backoffice extension – Part I), demonstrated how easy it is to create a new section in Umbraco's backoffice. This post will show...
Straight A’s in WebPagetest with Umbraco
Before launching a new website, there's a checklist I go through, to make sure that everything is ready. One of the items in my checklist is to test the...
A Solution to DataTokens must contain an ‘umbraco-doc-request’ key with a PublishedContentRequest object
Hi,
If you are experiencing "DataTokens must contain an 'umbraco-doc-request' key with a PublishedContentRequest object", you might have configured static routes with RouteTable.Routes.MapRoute(...).
Using the default UmbracoHelper Umbraco from Umbraco.Web.Mvc on these...
Working with Umbraco 7.6 New Pickers
With the old pickers, we could do something like this:
page.SetValue("myPicker", content.Id);
With the new pickers, we can't use IDs anymore, we have to use UDIs instead. They look like this:
"umb://document/28b551d1e9e74c758686604c9168b910"
So...
Syncing Member Types with uSync
This took me longer to figure out than it should have.
uSync has MemberType synchronization disabled by default.
To enable it simply go to ConfiguSyncBackOffice.Config and set MemberTypeHandler to true.
<Handlers Group="default"...
Automatic generation of Umbraco packages with Grunt
Manually creating Umbraco packages can be tiresome.
If you're continuously building upon the same package, doing it manually is wasting time that can be more useful developing new features.
This problem presented...