Isolated WebApi attribute routing
Attribute routing in ASP.Net WebApi is great and makes routing your controllers quite a bit more elegant than writing routes manually. However one problem I have with it is that it is either “on” or “off” at…
Powershell script to create an Umbraco package in Umbraco’s native file format
Since I like using Powershell for my build scripts for various projects I thought it would be handy to create a 100% Powershell powered script to create an Umbraco package in Umbraco’s native package…
All about ASP.Net File Change Notification (FCN)
There’s a chance you might not have heard of FCN (File Change Notification) in ASP.Net and there’s an even bigger chance you didn’t realize how much it might affect you. What is FCN in ASP.Net? As…
ASP.Net 5 Linux support for runtime JS & CSS preprocessing with Smidge
I’ve been working on a side project called Smidge which is a runtime JS & CSS preprocessor for ASP.Net 5. I started this late last year after the 2014 MS MVP Summit as a good starting point to deep…
Using LinqPad with Umbraco
During some spare time last weekend I decided to look into booting up Umbraco outside of a web context. I know this has been done before in various different ways but for this I wanted to just try to…
Configuring ASP.Net Identity OAuth login providers for multi-tenancy
Say for example you have a CMS :) You want to give full control to the developer to manage how their front-end members with authenticate, which could of course include ASP.Net Identity OAuth login pro…
Using AspNet5 OptionsModel
If you’ve used AspNet5 then you’ve probably been using some MVC in which case you’ve probably seen something like this in your Startup class:// Add MVC services to the services containerservices.AddMv…
Introducing ‘Smidge’ – an ASP.NET 5 runtime JS/CSS pre-processor
During the past month I decided to dive deep into learning ASP.NET 5, and what better way to learn than to start a new OSS project :) I chose to make a new new simple and extensible Javascript/CSS runtime pre-processor for ASP.NET 5. It does file minification, combination and compression, has a nice file caching layer and it’s all done in async operations. I ported over a few ideas and code snippets from CDF (client dependency framework) but with a more modern approach. I’ve called it ‘Smidge’ = something really small.…
Model binding with FromServices in ASP.Net 5
Here’s a pretty nifty feature I found in ASP.Net 5 – you can construct your model during model binding with IoC without any additional work. This is available on the dev branch on GitHub and is based…
Articulate 1.0.5 released
Good news! Today Articulate 1.0.5 has been released which has quite a few issues fixed, here’s the gist: #49 - Doesn't work with Umbraco 7.2 #18 - HasProperty on a partial view throws an error when L…