• January 23

    Sitefinity: Index and Search Events

    Posted Under: Web Development Tags: C# Sitefinity

    NOTE: This post has been superceded by the Sitefinity Toolkit whcih contains a search provider for news, events, and generic content items. This post remains for reference only.

    Sitefinity has a very useful search-indexing feature that works pretty much out-of-the-box to index pages, blogs and news. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any built-in provider for indexing events. Since I've changed the 404 page to include search results, I want to also include upcoming events in those results, just in case a date has changed or something.

    This option may be available after the next release, but as of version ...

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  • January 13

    Sitefinity: Custom 404 Page With Related Links

    Posted Under: Web Development Tags: Sitefinity

    One of the more interesting challenges I've encountered with Sitefinity has been how to handle error pages, specifically the 404 error that should be returned if a page is not found. Sitefinity uses the built in ASP.NET error handling mechanism, which allows you to redirect to a specific page based on the error code returned by the server. This means if a page is not found, you can catch that 404 error, and redirect to a custom 404 page informing the user of the error while avoiding the dreaded yellow screen of death.

    Unfortunately, since the 404 error was trapped, ...

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