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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

Nuget server on IIS6 returns 404 when downloading package after upgrade

We updated our nuget server today and ran into a problem where regardless of package selected or whether it's through the nuget package manager or the nuget package explorer, the server returns 404 (File Not Found). What was odd about this was that the packages exist and the

Recurring payment provider options for a UK start-up

As many of you will know, we're currently in the process of launching a new online service -Crisis Cover which is a digital safe for your business' digital assets. A week before the launch we ran into a slight hiccup in regards our payment gateway. The problem

How to: Remove all users from the ASP.Net Membership database by application name

A while ago I wrote about How to: Remove users from the ASP.Net membership database which showed you how to remove a single user from the ASP.Net membership database from SQL Management Studio. That's great when you're deleting one or two users but what