Umbraco 7 has messed around with, and closed down much of the MVC routing engine, to such a point that one cannot really be sure what standard MVC techniques still work. I have quickly come to the conclusion that while Umbraco makes very good CMS only sites this is a difficult area for a developer […]
When running Visual Studio in Windows 7 (and 8), I always do a couple of things: Turn User Account Control (UAC) off – on Windows 7 this defaults Visual Studio (and other programs) to run in Administrator mode. Switch off real time scanning on Microsoft Security Essentials (I don’t run email on the same PC), […]
This has probably been covered about a million times on the net, but I have included it to complete my previous post on Installing Umbraco Visual Studio Install using Nuget. This post assumes you have a Windows Azure account and know a little bit about whats in there (databases, web applications etc.) To sign up […]
As mentioned in a previous post, I have struggled to install Umbraco using 7.2.1/7.2.4 and Visual Studio 2013 (VS2013). As a developer my requirement is to add content management to an existing MVC project, or to start a new MVC project and give the users the option of content management so on the face of […]
I have been working on my first Umbraco 7 project. No matter what I do I cannot get it to install correctly via Nuget with VS2013. I am tearing my hair out here, which is bad because I don’t have much to start with! The instructions are from our.umbraco.org, titled Installing Umbraco with Nuget. I […]
I have am in the process of setting up an Umbraco 7 website that has limited editing facilities (i.e. only one person will be updating the site, a relatively experienced user at that). I would like this user to be able to upload Zip files. It appears that the disallowedUploadFiles in config/umbracoSettings.config is totally ignored: […]
Following up on my post about setting up Wireless networking, I wanted to relate a recent problem I have had. On occasion, the wireless networking was a bit hit and miss. In particular, the two iPads I have didn’t want to connect. Resetting the router was the only way to resolve. The router in question […]
There are some good third party software components out there, that have been developed over many years. Over the years, I personally have used www.devexpress.com with both Winforms and ASP.NET Webforms, www.telerik.com on ASP.NET Webforms and www.obout.com on ASP.NET Webforms. Let me make the distinction between components and tools. This post is about components that […]
ASP.NET Webforms has two ways of disabling text input fields: Method 1: Disabled
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<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="CommentsTextBox" Text='<%#Bind("Comments") %>' CssClass="textEntryLargest" TextMode="MultiLine" Rows="4" Enabled="False" /> |
Method 2: ReadOnly
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<asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="CommentsTextBox" Text='<%#Bind("Comments") %>' CssClass="textEntryLargest" TextMode="MultiLine" Rows="4" Enabled="True" ReadOnly="True" /> |
The first method greys out the field by default, the second one does not grey out. The other difference I have found is that the second method leaves the scroll bar in memo fields enabled, as opposed […]
One of the blogs I follow is Simple Programmer by John Sonmez. While I haven’t seen many of his Pluralsight courses (I will get round to it one day), I do enjoy reading his comments on his blog, and I do think John is very good at explaining things, particularly for beginners, and this tends to give […]
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