Software Blog: BugFix

One of my biggest annoyances about SQL Server is the inability to load a database from a later version into a previous one. Database files and backups don't have any indicators of their version (unless you are OCD enough to enforce naming conventions) so whenever I get a backup file from a client (or from my archive) it's a crapshoot which server it belongs to.

Worst of all, restoring it to a LATER version IS supported, so if I have an SQL Server 2005 backup and restore it to my local SQL Server 2008, it works fine. Then when I ...

The Sitefinity classification widgets allow you display a list of taxonomy items (Categories, Tags, etc.)from your various content items. By default this control collects and renders all used taxonomy items, regardless of type.

There is also a ContentType property that allows you to filter the taxonomy list to only render if items of that type are linked with an associated taxonomy, allowing you to create different lists for different types.

Unfortunately, this control doesn't appear to yet support filtering of Dynamic Content Types created by the Sitefinity Module Builder. Because these are dynamic types, the control cannot ...

When you create a blog in Sitefinity, you must also assign it a Default Page, which is the page that contains the BlogPosts widget for displaying the full Details View of a post.

If you delete this page, move the BlogPosts widget to another page, or modify this relationship in any other way, you must make sure to update the settings for your blog so that it always points to the correct page. Otherwise, Sitefinity will have no way of knowing where your blog posts are located.

This isn't necessarily a problem for your end users, because the BlogPosts ...

I experienced a "duh" moment today while trying to tackle an error I was receiving while playing with the Sitefinity 4 RC (due out later this week!). Whenever I created a template, I'd always get the following error when I tried to edit it:

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Source Error:...

At long last I finally found time to publish the latest version of the Sitefinity Toolkit, as of now version 1.1 with support for Sitefinity 3.7 SP1 through SP3 (it will not work with any other versions than these) on both the Standard and Community versions.

See the main page for the Sitefinity Toolkit for the download links and changelog, as the latest information for the toolkit will always be posted there.

Although I've tried to be thorough on this release, I honestly haven't had the time to test it as much as I'd like, so if you encounter ...