Can I disable Examine indexes on Umbraco front-end servers?

In Umbraco v8, Examine and Lucene are only used for the back office searches, unless you specifically use those APIs for your front-end pages. So can you disable them for your front-end servers?…

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Articulate 4.3.0 with support for markdown code snippets and syntax highlighting

Articulate 4.3.0 with support for markdown code snippets and syntax highlighting…

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Auto upgrade your Nuget packages with Azure Pipelines or GitHub Actions

Auto upgrade your Nuget packages with Azure Pipelines or GitHub Actions…

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How to execute one Controller Action from another in ASP.NET 5

This will generally be a rare thing to do but if you have your reasons to do it, then this is how…In Umbraco there is a valid reason to do this which has to do with how HTTP POSTs are handled for…

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Allowing dynamic SupportedCultures in RequestLocalizationOptions

The documented usage of RequestLocalizationOptions in ASP.NET 5/Core is to assign a static list of SupportedCultures since ASP.NET is assuming you’ll know up-front what cultures your app is…

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How to change HttpRequest.IsSecureConnection

This is an old problem that is solved in dozens of different ways. Typically in an ASP.Net Framework site when you need to check if the request is running in HTTPS you would do something like…

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Spatial Search with Examine and Lucene

I was asked about how to do Spatial search with Examine recently which sparked my interest on how that should be done so here’s how it goes…Examine’s default implementation is Lucene so by default…

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Searching with IPublishedContentQuery in Umbraco

I recently realized that I don’t think Umbraco’s APIs on IPublishedContentQuery are documented so hopefully this post may inspire some docs to be written or at least guide some folks on some…

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Filtering fields dynamically with Examine

The index fields created by Umbraco in Examine by default can lead to quite a substantial amount of fields. This is primarily due in part by how Umbraco handles variant/culture data because it will…

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Writing a DocFx markdown plugin

What is DocFx? It’s a static site generator mainly used for creating API documentation for your code. But it can be used for any static sites. We use this for the Lucene.Net project’s website and…

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