Sign in Subscribe

Topic

ASP.Net

A collection of 60 posts

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

Umbraco powered CheckBoxList or DropdownList nodes in uCommerce admin area

uCommerce is a great e-commerce engine for Umbraco and high on our list of options when evaluating new e-commerce projects at The Site Doctor. One thing that has always bugged me however is the lack of extensibility on the admin backend. This is something I've discussed with Søren

How to generate customer purchase cohorts from uCommerce data

I've had a couple of people ask how they can create customer purchase cohorts from their uCommerce data since my last post so here's a quick script. Depending on how you've setup your uCommerce store, the customer ids might be different so instead of

Avoid Unrecognized attribute 'xmlns:xdt' configuration error

If you've been using web.config transformations or a nuget package with transformations in at all you'll no doubt have come across the runtime configuration error of "Unrecognized attribute 'xmlns:xdt'. Note that attribute names are case-sensitive" pointing at the start of

Umbraco developers - remember to disable the umbDebug settings when you go live

Recently I've noticed a growing number of Umbraco developers forgetting to disable the Umbraco debug settings before going live. We all fall foul of this from time to time but it is a security loophole that you can patch incredibly easily. If you're not familiar with

Taking UCommerce emails to the next level and include the order id in the subject, multiple recipients and Google click tracking

One of the things that I've felt has always been a little lacking in uCommerce was their email system, it's a great idea and nicely implemented but it was rather inflexible in earlier version -you couldn't send "other" emails easily etc. Most

Beware! Context.RewritePath does not end the current execution path

We've recently been working on an inherited project that's got some interesting "features", one of which is how they handle URL rewriting. There are a number of HTTPHandlers that can be plugged into your application or ISAPI filters to enable URL rewriting in IIS

Retrieve the customer's last address when logging into uCommerce

Probably one of the most common features of an ecommerce systems is to "retrieve my details" when logging in -after all that's why you create an account with the seller isn't it? Out of the box, uCommerce has XSLT to retrieve the customer'

Getting started with uCommerce

I thought seeing as uCommerce is now an actual product I would start to overview an install/configuration of uCommerce assuming no prior knowledge of uCommerce. Firstly, let me start of by saying that once you've got your head around uCommerce and some of it's complexities,

Using Linq and Extension Methods to chunk large data sets

Ever needed to take a large list and split it into smaller subsets of data for processing? Well this is the Extension Method for you. Tonight we had to split a small dataset (500 items) into even smaller sets of 10 so the provider’s web service wouldn’t timeout.