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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

No basket exist for the current user when checking out in uCommerce

Stupidly this had me going for a while today so this is partly a post to act as a reminder not to do it again but also hopefully to help someone else from doing the same. A site we are working on was sending the order confirmation email -and processing

Illegal characters in path in MVC view

I initially thought that this was an issue with Umbraco's implementation on MVC but it turns out that if you have an IEnumerable property on your view model then you may get an error similar to the below. I've done a little searching around in the

How not to do a "How did you hear about us" selector

A frequent request we get when creating a checkout process or contact us form is to include a "How did you hear about us" select list. They generally end up looking like this one I screenshot from MoonPig: We usually recommend against adding a "How did you

New domain name scam

This email almost caught me out the other day: The client has been interested in the .com before but I couldn't recall whether it was something we had bought for them or not so I checked it out and it was actually free -so it's basically

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

Quick pro tip - Open File in Sublime from Visual Studio

This is one of those really simple little gems that helps productivity ten-fold. Firstly, regardless of whether you're running a PC, Mac or Linux, if you've not already come across Sublime Text 2 you should go download it right now. There are a ton of amazing

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

Estimating the real value of source code

If you run a software development company of virtually any size, you've no doubt been asked/bullied at some point for the source code; sometimes it's even stipulated as a requirement of the contract. At The Site Doctor we don't tend to quibble over