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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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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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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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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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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