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