• February 25

    Sitefinity Toolkit: Mobile Device Detection

    Posted Under: Web Development Tags: Sitefinity Toolkit C#

    I think by far the best part of Sitefinity is how it is built on and makes full use of the ASP.NET architecture. Because of things like Code-Behind, Themes, Skins, and other foundations of the Framework, Sitefinity is more open and extensible than any other CMS platform I've ever used.

    A direct consequence of the separation of content vs design is how easy it is to "swtich themes". It's as simple as populating a new Theme folder with new css and images mapped to the css classes defined in your page. It was a simple matter to take this one ...

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  • February 23

    Sitefinity Toolkit: Workflow Notifications

    Posted Under: Web Development Tags: Sitefinity Toolkit

    Apologies for the delay in continuing this series. Life keeps me busy, and while I wouldn't have it any other way, it's sometimes difficult to find time for the little things. I'd also like to thank Darren L for providing the first donation to my studio fund! Because of his kind feedback and donation, I'll be releasing an update to the Sitefinity Password Recovery that will fix a few issues he encountered. Stay tuned for that, and please feel free to kick in a donation of your own (see sidebar for details).

    Overview

    NOTE: This feature is ONLY available for ...

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  • February 22

    IIS 7 Adobe PDF Bug Fix

    Posted Under: Miscellaneous Tags: BugFix IIS

    This is just a quick note to document a fix for a horrendous bug in Adobe Reader that causes downloads to fail if they are being served from a Windows Server 2008 machine. It has been plaguing me for weeks, before I even knew it was a bug! The last time I needed help with something I ended up finding the solution on my own blog, so hopefully if I encounter it again, I'll end up here. Hello future self!

    Anyway, the details of the bug are discussed in depth on the iis.net forum, but the basic summary is that ...

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  • February 12

    Sitefinity Toolkit: Search Index Providers

    Posted Under: Web Development Tags: Sitefinity Toolkit

    I'd like to apologize for the delay in continuing my Sitefinity Toolkit series. Wednesday I was out sick, and have spent the rest of this week catching up. However I didn't want the weekend to pass without adding at least something, so here is a quick rundown on using the new Search Index Providers provided by the toolkit.

    A lot of this work is based on the Sitefinity Index and Search Events post I wrote last year, but in addition to indexing the Events Module, it has been extended to include support for Latest News, which is any ...

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  • February 09

    Sitefinity Toolkit: iCal Event Reminder

    Posted Under: Web Development Tags: Sitefinity Toolkit C# iCal

    One of the best features of Sitefinity is the Events Module. But while you can easily add and categorize events, and even show a nifty interactive map on the event detail page, there isn't any built-in way to let your visitors add the event to their Outlook calendar.

    Fortunately, with the help of DDay.iCal Class Library by Douglas Day, I was able to bring easily incorporate this functionality. The process basically reduces to this:

    1. Retrieve the Event ID from the event details page
    2. Pass that ID to an ashx handler, which returns an iCal item

    Installation and Usage

    Of ...

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