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 RepliesOver 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.
What is the difference between; Deploying an application Releasing an application Implementing an application
View 1 RepliesI've gone rounds with this ever since I started programming classic ASP 12 (or so) years ago and I've never found a great solution because the architecture of ASP and ASP.NET has always been a swamp of bad practices, magic shared singletons, etc. My biggest issue is with the HttpApplication object with its non-event events (Application_Start, Application_End, etc.).
If you want to do stuff once for the entire lifespan of an HTTP application, Application_Start is the obvious place to do it. Right? Not exactly. Firstly, this is not an event per se, it's a magic naming convention that, when followed, causes the method to be called once per AppDomain created by IIS.
Besides magic naming conventions being a horrible practice, I've started to think it might be a reason there exist no such thing as a Start event on the HttpApplication object. So I've experimented with events that do exist, such as Init. Well, this isn't really an event either, it's an overridable method, which is the next best thing.
It seems that the Init() method is called for every instantiation of an HttpApplication object, which happens a lot more than once per AppDomain. This means that I might as just put my startup logic inside the HttpApplication object's constructor.
Now my question is, why shouldn't I put my startup logic in the constructor? Why does even Init() exist and do I need to care about Application_Start? If I do, can anyone explain why there is no proper event or overridable method for this pseudo-event in the HttpApplication object?
And can anyone explain to me why in a typical ASP.NET application, 8 instances of my HttpApplication are created (which causes the constructor and Init to run just as many times, of course; this can be mitigated with locking and a shared static boolean called initialized) when my application only has a single AppDomain?
I just finished installing SiteFinity 3.7 standard version on windows server 2008. Is there a way to entirely/partially import an already existing .NET project (ASP.NET) into SiteFinity with some minor changes in the code of course (may be by changinf a couple of xml files or something similar). I could only see an "export" under Administration->Tools section but no import.
View 2 RepliesI'm struggling with a URL Rewriting rule for SiteFinity. I am trying to make sure that you can only access the homepage via / and not /default.aspx.
I tried the following rule:
<rule mode="PermanentRedirect">
<url>/default.aspx</url>
<rewrite>/</rewrite>
</rule>
Which actually works perfectly on the homepage - however it also catches /sitefinity/default.aspx and redirects off the homepage - not content editors!
I essentially need a rule that will match when there is nothing prior to the string /default.aspx.
Here is what I have:
Dim cmsManager As New Telerik.Cms.CmsManager()
Dim currentNode As Telerik.Cms.Web.CmsSiteMapNode = CType(SiteMap.CurrentNode, Telerik.Cms.Web.CmsSiteMapNode)
Dim currentPage As Telerik.Cms.ICmsPage = currentNode.GetCmsPage()
Dim currentPageId As Guid = currentPage.ID
Dim pageFromDb As Telerik.Cms.IPage = cmsManager.GetPage(currentPageId)
Me.LastUpdateDate = pageFromDb.DateModified
Unfortunately .DateModified returns the last time that a page was edited instead of when it was last published.
How do I implement a custom 404 page on Sitefinity 3.5 using ASP.NET?
View 1 Replieshow we can create the dynamic page ex. help.aspx and write the code in sitefinity. Because i facing a problem I create a page but i unable to know in which directory the page is lived.
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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 + " ";
}
We 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 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'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.
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 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 can't seem to find anything on how to edit the data editor settings before umbraco 6.2 (Juno). Is there any simple way, it must be possible. If you don't understand what i mean i want to do the same as [URL]
View 2 RepliesDoes anybody know of an easy way to store Umbraco settings (Document Types, Media Types etc) on the file system in order to manage that data within source control?
Note: changes to settings made on the file system need to be easily integrated back into the CMS database.
Also, does anybody know of a way to package up settings from a development environment for rolling out to staging and live environments?
For an Umbraco project, I am trying to make a simple Ajax call.. I can't use PageMethods because I need to make the call from inside a UserControl.. I tried to do it via web service call like this:
Web service method:
[System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService]
public class MapService : System.Web.Services.WebService
{
[WebMethod]
[Code]...
The problem is, "MapService.GetCities" method doesn't get invoked..
What might be the problem here?
Alternatively, what is there any better way to make these kind of Ajax calls in a User Control?