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Tim Gaunt

Error running Ucommerce scratch indexer Illegal duplicate key definitions

We hit an interesting issue indexing the Ucommerce data the other day which had us going for a while. It turns out that when upgrading Ucommerce to 7.0.6, some new payment providers were added to `uCommerce_Definition` with duplicate Guids which then caused an issue. We found it

Design with data -how to get the longest/shortest product/category name from Ucommerce

There's little more frustrating that finalising a store and loading in the product data only to find it doesn't look as beautiful as the design. This is usually because the designer has chosen a product title from the site which looks good in the design rather

Turn negative reviews to your advantage

Nothing reassures a new customer quite like the experience of an existing customer, but its not always roses and that's ok if handled sensitively. No one likes a negative review, especially after having worked hard to service a customer, but you should not shy away from them as

Can't register services with LightInject in Umbraco - The non-generic method 'Composition.Register(Type, Lifetime)' cannot be used with type arguments

We've generally used Autofac as our go to dependency injection container in Umbraco but we like to keep projects as lean as possible so wanted to start using LightInject for Umbraco V8 projects but hit a silly error this morning which took a while to track down. Nearly

Delete all products and orders from Ucommerce

Here's an updated script to delete all the products, orders and any other testy type data from Ucommerce. This is an updated version of my previous script to delete all product and order data from Ucommerce and accommodates Ucommerce's new database schema for prices. BEGIN TRAN

Drop/Kill all connections to a SQL Database

Every now and again you need to get exclusivity to a database e.g. to do a database restore but someone is connected. You can manually find who it is using EXEC sp_who but that can result in having to manually kill the various connections. This is a little

Error editing Ucommerce marketing campaign

We came across an odd error recently which was thrown when editing a marketing campaign in Ucommerce. It was a fresh install (albeit via nuget) and was along the lines of: UCommerce.EntitiesV2.DynamicOrderPropertyTarget needs to implement any of the following interfaces: UCommerce.Marketing.Targets.IDisplayTarget, UCommerce.Marketing.Targets.IPurchaseOrderTarget,

How To: Automatically set Umbraco folder permissions after AppVeyor deploy

We've been playing more with AppVeyor over the past few weeks to automate the deployment of our sites and one of the things we got caught out with was the Umbraco folder permissions which we do with PowerShell on the server. It turns out it's really

How To: Quickly Set Umbraco File and Folder Permissions with PowerShell

In 2010 I blogged about how to set Umbraco folder permissions using PowerShell. This has been a really handy snippet -but it's always been a bit of a pain when dealing with new servers, remembering where SetFolderPermission.ps1 is, creating missing (old) folders and not setting the permissions

How To: Return the customer to your site after paying with WorldPay

Stripe is generally our go-to PCI compliant payment gateway but from time to time we're asked to use alternatives such as WorldPay. For the most this is fine but redirecting the shopping from WorldPay on a successful transaction is a bit of a pain and there are a