Getting Umbraco to work with Azure Easy Auth
There’s a nifty feature in your Azure App Service that allows you to very quickly add authentication and authorization to your Azure website. You’ll see most folks calling this “Easy Auth” and there’s…
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…
Paging with Examine
Paging with Lucene and Examine requires some specific API usage. It's very easy to get wrong by using Linq's Skip/Take methods and when doing this you'll inadvertently end up loading in all search results from Lucene and then filtering in memory when what you really want to do is have Lucene only create the minimal search result objects that you are interested in.…
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…
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!…
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…
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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