Controller Scoped Model Binding in ASP.NET Core

Want to avoid [FromBody] attributes everywhere? Don’t want to use [ApiController] strict conventions? Don’t want to apply IInputFormatter’s globally?…

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Examine and Azure Blob Storage

Quite some time ago - probably close to 2 years - I created an alpha version of an extension library to Examine to allow storing Lucene indexes in Blob Storage called Examine.AzureDirectory. This idea…

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Web Application projects with Umbraco Cloud

How can I use Web Application projects with Umbraco Cloud?…

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How I upgraded my site to Umbraco 8 on Umbraco Cloud

A short guide to upgrading an Umbraco v7 site to a v8 site with Umbraco Cloud…

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Finding success in OSS

I’ve been working in open source for quite some time and wanted to share some of my experiences in regards to managing OSS projects and communities. I’ve been employed by Umbraco, an open source .Net…

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How to register MVC controllers shipped with a class library in ASP.NET Core

In many cases you’ll want to ship MVC controllers, possibly views or taghelpers, etc… as part of your class library. To do this correctly you’ll want to add your assembly to ASP.NET’s “Application…

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Articulate 4.0.0 released for Umbraco version 8

It’s finally out in the wild! Articulate 4.0.0 is a pretty huge release so here’s the rundown……

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Need to remove an auto-routed controller in Umbraco?

Umbraco will auto-route some controllers automatically. These controllers are any MVC SurfaceControllers or WebApi UmbracoApiController types discovered during startup. There might be some cases where…

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Benchmarking performance of your code between release versions

A while ago in 2016 I posted a question on the BenchmarkDotNet repository about an official way to run benchmarks between Nuget releases and I managed to find some time in 2018 to make that work.…

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Umbraco Down Under Festival 2019

I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at this year’s Umbraco Down Under Festival which was fantastic! Thanks to everyone at KØBEN digital for putting on such a nice event as well to all of the…

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