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...
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...
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...
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 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...
Force Image Cache Refresh Programmatically
The best solution I found, to force the browser cache to refresh for an image, is to modify the image url in the html.
Example:
I have an image with this...
Umbraco profiler
Quick tip:
If you need to find which part of your Umbraco application is slowing the site down, follow these steps:
Set the debug property of the compilation section of your Web.config...
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...
Adding an Angular app to your Umbraco Website
What problems does this solve?
This enables you to have an Angular application alongside your Umbraco website, on a specified route.
The Angular App can be protected by the Authentication of...
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"...