Easily lock out Umbraco back office users
Want an easy way to lock out all back office users? Maybe you are performing an upgrade and want to make sure there’s no back office activity?Here’s a super handy script to do this:using System;using…
Easily setup your Umbraco installation with IoC / Dependency Injection
Umbraco supports allowing you to setup and configure any IoC container type that you want to use in your application. For a while now there’s been some sparse documentation on how to achieve this…
Deploying to Azure from VSTS using publish profiles and msdeploy
In almost all of the examples online about how to deploy various services to Azure, they always list the super easy way to do it and that is to authenticate your current account to your Azure…
How to lazily set the multi-term rewrite method on queries in Lucene
For wildcard queries in Lucene that you would like to have the results ordered by Score, there’s a trick that you need to do otherwise all of your scores will come back the same. The reason for this…
Articulate 3.0.0 has finally arrived
It’s taken me forever to get this release out, mostly due to lack of time, but it’s finally here! Huge thanks to many community members who helped with this release, here’s some shout outs – THANKS!…
Using IExceptionLogger with per-controller IControllerConfiguration in WebApi
There’s plenty of examples online about implementing a custom IExceptionLogger globally in WebApi and I’m sure they all work as expected but what if you don’t want to register it globally? In that…
Umbraco passwords and ASP.NET Machine Keys
This blog post is the result of a thread on Twitter which starts here: https://twitter.com/crumpled_jeavon/status/880522105795870720 and works its way into confusion. Suffice to say I can’t answer…
Smidge + Nuglify bundling, minification and source maps
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OWIN Cookie Authentication with variable cookie paths
By default OWIN Cookie Authentication let’s you specify a single configurable cookie path that does not change for the lifetime of the application, for exampleapp.UseCookieAuthentication(new…
Umbraco CLI running on ASP.NET Core
Over the past couple of years I’ve slowly been working on getting Umbraco to run on ASP.NET Core. Unlike many other ASP.NET frameworks and products that have rewritten their apps in ASP.NET Core, I’ve…