Software Blog: Sitefinity Toolkit

Now that Sitefinity 4 has been out for over a month, the time I have available for maintaining the Sitefinity Toolkit is quickly diminishing. However, I still receive frequent emails asking for help, suggesting new features, or reporting bugs. I'm glad that so many of you continue to find the toolkit useful, and I regret that I don't have enough time to keep up with all of your feedback.

As a result, I am pleased to announce that, at long last, I am releasing the full source code for the Sitefinity Toolkit on Codeplex. All updates, discussions, bug reports, ...

At long last, I've finally been able to successfully compile the Sitefinity Toolkit for ALL versions of the latest Sitefinity version 3.7! A lot of improvements have been added over the years, including fixing a few nasty bugs and completely rebuilding the Caching and Notification features. For a complete changelog and downloads for all versions, check the Sitefinity Toolkit Page.

Full Sitefinity 3.7 Support

As I just mentioned the BIGGEST change in this release is that it is now fully supported for ALL versions of Sitefinity 3.7, including all service packs up to SP4. In addition, all ASP.NET versions ...

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 ...

IMPORTANT UPDATE FOR USERS OF SITEFINITY TOOLKIT 1.2

There is a compatibility issue between the Mobile Foundation library used for mobile detection and the Sitefinity Administration Login that could not be resolved. The Mobile Detection Module can still be used but the Mobile Foundation must be DISABLED in web.config by commenting out the related sections in web.config:

<!--
  <sectionGroup name="fiftyOne">
            <section name="log" type="FiftyOne.Foundation.Mobile.Configuration.LogSection, FiftyOne.Foundation" requirePermission="false" allowDefinition="Everywhere" restartOnExternalChanges="false" allowExeDefinition="MachineToApplication"/>
            <section name="redirect" type="FiftyOne.Foundation.Mobile.Configuration.RedirectSection, FiftyOne.Foundation" requirePermission="false" allowDefinition="Everywhere" restartOnExternalChanges="false" allowExeDefinition="MachineToApplication"/>
            <section name="wurfl" type="FiftyOne.Foundation.Mobile.Detection.Wurfl.Configuration.WurflSection, FiftyOne.Foundation" requirePermission="false" allowDefinition="Everywhere" restartOnExternalChanges="false" allowExeDefinition="MachineToApplication"/>
        </sectionGroup>
  -->

  <!--
  <fiftyOne>
        <wurfl wurflFilePath="~/App_Data/wurfl.xml.gz">
            <wurflPatches>
                <add name="browser_definitions" filePath="~/App_Data/web_browsers_patch.xml" enabled="true"/>
            </wurflPatches>
        </wurfl>
    </fiftyOne>
  -->

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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).

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