Searching Umbraco using Razor and Examine
This post was imported from FARMCode.org which has been discontinued. These posts now exist here as an archive. They may contain broken links and images.Since Razor is really just c# it’s super simple…
Using metadata with MEF in Medium Trust
One of the awesome parts of MEF is that you can attach metadata to your objects. This allows you to use the new Lazy<T, TMetadata> object so you can inspect the meta data about an object without…
Developing a plugin framework in ASP.NET MVC with medium trust
I’ve recently spent quite a lot of time researching and prototyping different ways to create a plugin engine in ASP.NET MVC3 and primarily finding a nice way to load plugins (DLLs) in from outside of…
A quick UI guide to using Umbraco’s new repository format: Mercurial
If you haven’t read the news, Umbraco is moving it’s repository format from TFS to Mercurial today! The Umbraco post lists quite a few links to start learning about Mercurial and how it works and I de…
Umbraco Jupiter Plugins - Part 2 - Routing
This is the second blog post in a series of posts relating to building plugins for Umbraco v5 (Jupiter). Related Posts: Umbraco Jupiter Plugins – Part 1 Disclaimer This post is about developi…
HtmlHelper Table methods
I was hoping that these were built already but couldn’t see any descent results with a quick Google search so figured I’d just write my own… these are now part of the Umbraco v5 codebase. Here’s 2 Htm…
Creating code-behind files for Umbraco templates
This post was imported from FARMCode.org which has been discontinued. These posts now exist here as an archive. They may contain broken links and images.I’ve always had this idea in my head that one o…
Examine v1.0 RTM
This post was imported from FARMCode.org which has been discontinued. These posts now exist here as an archive. They may contain broken links and images.We finally released Examine version 1.0 a week…
Custom ‘Actions’ (Context menu items) in Umbraco Jupiter
If you have created a custom tree in Umbraco 4.x then you would have probably created a custom context menu item (‘Action’) and realized that they are uniquely defined by a single character. You’ve pr…
MVC Controllers as plugins with MEF and Autofac
Disclaimer This blog posts talks about Umbraco v5 (Jupiter), however since the state of the codebase is in it’s infancy, the details about Umbraco v5 in this article may not be accurate once Umbraco…