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Remove uCommerce Product Definition Field in SQL

Sometimes you need to remove a product definition field from uCommerce e.g. one created in a test environment. Although you can just right click and click "delete" within the administration area, this sometimes doesn't work e.g. when it's a pre-release so this

Download any Umbraco document type’s values as crosstab/Excel table

In a follow up to my post yesterday -How to download Umbraco content properties into a crosstab table this is the follow up SQL Script that makes it even easier to download any Umbraco document type into Excel. This SQL Script is fairly simple, basically what it does is it

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'

Developer Pitfall: When to call it quits on a problem

We’ve all done it, you’ve run into a problem while developing which you bash at for a few hours and before you know it, you’ve lost the day, not got anywhere and feel completely frustrated. What’s more, is it’s usually something so screamingly obvious and/

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.

Automatically add a show and hide link to any object with jQuery

There are plenty of tutorials around that show you how to show or hide a div with jQuery, you can find a load on Google but I wanted something that was re-usable throughout our projects so I created the addShowHideLink jQuery plugin. We’ve been using it across a few

Set Umbraco Folder Permissions with Powershell

Update available: I've updated this script to make it more copy/past. You can read the better way to set Umbraco folder permissions with PowerShell here. If you're not configuring Umbraco through a web installer, you've had your installs in place for years and

Stop jQuery.hide() showing the elements on page load

This is a great little tip that Andy Higgs shared with me a couple of months ago while we were developing Crisis Cover. If you write jQuery that hides the div when the user has JavaScript enabled, you can avoid the divs all being shown while the page loads by

Error 11: An error occurred when merging assemblies: ILMerge.Merge: ERROR!!: Duplicate type 'xyz' found in assembly 'App_Web_rh2sxhkc'. aspnet_merge

You may have come across this error once or twice while deploying your project if you develop using Web Deployment Projects. It's usually caused when you copy and paste a page and forget to update both the page declaration and code behind file. But the website builds!?! You