.net - Umbraco Learning Resources?
Feb 23, 2011I need to create a site in umbraco. Is there any good resource to learn Umbraco? I am new to CMS. which is the good learning sites?
View 3 RepliesI need to create a site in umbraco. Is there any good resource to learn Umbraco? I am new to CMS. which is the good learning sites?
View 3 RepliesThere was a Learn link in the old ASP.Net site that was very valuable. Is this gone?
View 4 RepliesI am trying to learn Microsoft sharepoint and I wanted your ask some opinion on some of the online resources available. I checked some of the training institutions (I am from India), but the courses are very expensive there. I am looking for the following details:
1 - What softwares are needed to learn sharepoint- on my laptop I have Visual Studio 2008. Is that sufficient? If not, can you please provide me some details.2 - Training material If there are some good online training materials for sharepoint,can you please let me know Typically, how long would it take to get some grasp on sharepoint? I have used visual studio and I am good in writing C# or VB.NET code.But I have no background on sharepoint.
I'm completely new in web service. I want to study about it and the use it in my web site?
View 4 RepliesI have recently upgraded to VS 2010 and converted my web site into a web application. Now, when I attempt to build, I receive the error:
Resource name '<name>.Resources.resources' cannot be used more than once.
There is no page name or anything, and I have completely exhausted all that Google has to offer.
Does enyone know how to get the tabname i can get the id but dont know how to get the name...
this is my code so far:
int userId = umbraco.BasePages.UmbracoEnsuredPage.GetUserId(umbraco.BasePages.UmbracoEnsuredPage.umbracoUserContextID);
DocumentType typeToCreate = DocumentType.GetByAlias("FAQItem");
Document newDoc = Document.MakeNew("test123", typeToCreate, new global::umbraco.BusinessLogic.User(userId), 1161);
newDoc.getProperty("yourName").Value = newDoc.getProperty("Question");
foreach(var prop in newDoc.GenericProperties)
{
ewDoc.getProperty("email").Value += prop.PropertyType.TabId + " ";
}
I am getting a large website developed. The develop has asked me which do I prefer either sitefinity or umbraco. The site will be similar to wikipedia where users can come and edit pages without having to login. I would like to ask your opionions on these two csm systems and which one would you recommend for content website with a community feel and wiki features.
View 5 RepliesWe are in the process of implementing a CMS for our project which currently extensively uses asp.net master pages and css. Also the application is data-driven and controls like gridview and listview are used. After a little search we zeroed on two CMS dotnetnuke and umbraco. Now my question is:
Which one of the two CMS is best suited and easy to use?
Do they support integration of existing code and UI's
provide links for further reference.
I've heard that new version of Umbraco CMS will be completely rewritten and will be based on asp.net mvc?
Current version is 4.5 and as I see it is still based on ASP.NET.
I'm trying to redirect any non-www prefixed traffic to the www prefixed domain. I'm using Umbraco as the CMS and have added the following code into the urlrewritingnet config file:
<add name="nonWWW"
virtualUrl="^(?!www.)(.*)$"
rewriteUrlParameter="ExcludeFromClientQueryString"
destinationUrl="[URL]"
ignoreCase="true" />
I'm getting a "is not a valid virtual path" error
I am trying to create a custom datatype. The intention being a dropdown list. As of right now, I can access the control I created but no properties or values are showing up within it. Just the blank drop down.
public partial class usercontrols_admin_customDataType_CountryDropDown :
System.Web.UI.UserControl,
umbraco.editorControls.userControlGrapper.IUsercontrolDataEditor
{
public string umbracoValue;
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (Page.IsPostBack)
{
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
FormFieldBuilder countries = new FormFieldBuilder();
ds = countries.GetAllCountries();
ddCountries.DataSource = ds;
ddCountries.DataTextField = ds.Tables[0].Columns["DisplayName"].ToString();
ddCountries.DataValueField = ds.Tables[0].Columns["guiCountryID"].ToString();
ddCountries.DataBind();
}
}
#region IUsercontrolDataEditor Members
public object value
{
get
{
return ddCountries.SelectedValue;
}
set
{
if (value != null)
{
ddCountries.SelectedValue = value.ToString();
}
}
}
#endregion
}
I'm using Umbraco 4.5.2 and I have a node with a number of child nodes. Each child node represents a fragment of HTML that will be rendered in a control. The control loops over all the child nodes and renders them.
For the moment I have a bit of a dirty hack going in order to get the thing going (still fairly new to Umbraco) but I'd rather do this better.
The code I have at the moment looks like this:
private string GetItemHtml(Node node)
{
// Work out the URL of the HTML fragment
string url = "http://" + Context.Request.Url.Host +
":" + Context.Request.Url.Port +
node.Url;
// Get the fragment by making a call to the page
WebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(url);
WebResponse res = req.GetResponse();
using (Stream stream = res.GetResponseStream())
{
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream);
string result = reader.ReadToEnd();
return result;
}
}
As you can see, it is really rather ugly. I'm hoping there is some way to get this without having to make many HTTP calls, even if it is looping back to the same server - it can't be very efficient.
Over the past 3 years I have been using (...shamefully) SharePoint 2007, DNN and Tridion to develop web portals. I am however looking to move off SharePoint and Tridion (lack of control over urls, markup and tdd) and am looking for alternatives.
Which of these would your vote go to and why? Could you share any experiences you have with these:
Orchard
Sitefinity
Umbraco
N2
Although Orchard and Sitefinity seem easily extensible, I am worried about community support.
I'm all set up with Visual Developer 2010 Express and successfully (yaaah) worked my way through the NerdDinner tutorial (thank you, thank you, thank you!). So, I think I have everything set up correctly so far. I used the "Install Everything" without the prebuilt apps and all went smoothly.
However, my goal is to set up CMS for a small company owned by a relative so they can update their website as necessary. I'd love to do this with MVC.
I have tried to install both N2 CMS and Umbraco, but can't get past the admin and user names and passwords for the database. Since I'm failing with both apps, I think it's something about setting up the database server that I need to understand.Win 7 Home Premium 64, home system, not on a network. what I need to enter for admin / admin passwords and user / user passworks for N2 CMS and Umbraco?
I am trying to use YAF with Umbraco. The newest version out changed enough where the old integration methods don't seem to work. I have gotten everything fairly far on my own but I have hit a brick wall with this error: Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException: Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.
Source Error:
Line 23: <img src="~/yaf/images/YAFLogo.jpg" runat="server" alt="YetAnotherForum" id="imgBanner" /><br/>
Line 24: <form id="form1" runat="server" enctype="multipart/form-data">
Line 25: <YAF:Forum runat="server" ID="yafForum" />
Line 26: </form>
Line 27: </body>
I have a feeling that YAF is not starting up the database. In previous versions of YAF there was an INIT module that you loaded in your web.config file. This module is no longer there (YAF.Base.YAFInitModule).
I am learning .net, c#, MSSQL, CSS, photoshop, and I didnt know if silverlight would be a good addition.
View 4 RepliesI am looking for learning materials (like blog posts and tutorials) for ASP.NET MVC 3.0 specific materials.If you know of any books, blogs, sites or online resources that are exclusively, predominently or even mainly MVC 3.0 related, I would love to hear about them, also, specific links to individual MVC 3.0 related tutorials & blog posts would also be accepted if you were so inclined.
View 2 RepliesI have been doing windows applications using c#.
But recently our management has planned to make some of the projects to be web based.
We thought of using asp.net with c#.
Can anybody guide me on effectively learning asp.net.
I have around 2 years of experience in asp.net 2.0. My C# is a little weak compare to asp.net. Which are the best books for me to learn c#4.0 in a detailed manner.
View 8 RepliesI was just trying to install Umraco CMS on my ASP.NET website. I am using the Web Platform installer from Ubraco http://umraco/downloadI pointed the CMS install to the local website folder where it was intended to be installed and specified to use an existing database for the same. It is asking for the some username and password for the Database access. Is there some default value of the these particulars for these because I never configured the username and password for my DB? (It is a MS SQL Database)
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When installing an Umbraco site, I changed my umbraco admin url from '/umbraco/' to '/myadminurl/', even before I went through the install process.
Just like it's documented, I changed in the web.config the keys 'umbracoReservedPaths' and 'umbracoPath' to match my new admin url.
Installed and everything is working fine, except for one thing: All the nodes in the trees in all sections aren't showing any thumbnails. There used to be a win folder thumb before each tree node, but now it's just empty, except for the 'packages' node in the developer section, and for the recycle bin thumb.
I have quite a number of user controls that I need to embed in Umbraco macros. Each user control has quite a bit of in page javascript that needs loaded into the page.
I have been building up the javascript with StringBuilder.Appendline then registering a startup script with code behind but this stinks and I feel there has to be a better way of going about this.
As been requested, I wrote some code which basically change the document's date (the document of umbraco blog).
I have changed every place I can find the date, and makes all the date displays fine, and I have adjusted the path to make it correct.
Now, the url indicated in the umbraco.library.NiceUrl(id) is not working, but previous url is still working.... Just wondering is there any file which 'temporarily' or 'permanently' store the friendly url mapping? if so, how can i modify that?!
Btw, where is the umbraco cache file stored?
btw, umbraco version 4.0.3, restart the website still not working, change the document title will result in old url's title changed, but new url is still not working...
I am using MVC3 with LinQ and Entity framework and I want to start applying ajax. Where is the best place to start?
View 3 RepliesWhat's the best way to go about learning PHP when I've been doing ASP/ASP.NET? I'm not sure it's worth the time, but there seem to be so many projects doing it. What do you think? Anyone crossed the worlds? How did you do it?
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