| Home | My Account | Directories |
Umbraco 5 Surface Controller
Published on 2011-12-21 15:12:00
In a recent post I blogged my first steps in creating plugins for Umbraco 5 - creating a tree and editor using a custom hive provider for a third party database, in order to present and edit information within the Umbraco back office.I noted how the information could also be made available on the front-end of the site by writing code within the razor view template. Whilst that worked, it wasn't very satisfactory and certainly wasn't the MVC way with too much code and logic in the view.Since the
Creating an Umbraco 5 Hive Provider with Custom Tree and Editor Plugin
Published on 2011-11-21 17:00:00
Having used Umbraco CMS on a couple of projects in the past and been very impressed with it, I’ve been keen to follow progress on version 5 (or “Jupiter”) – a rewrite of the code-base to use ASP.Net MVC. In particular I’ve been looking recently at some of the extension points of the platform.One of these is building upon the data access abstraction layer that is being developed for Umbraco 5 – known as Hive. Umbraco itself will use NHibernate for data access, but via the Hive abstr
Upgrade ASP.Net MVC2 to MVC3
Published on 2011-06-21 16:00:00
Having recently upgraded a couple of ASP.Net MVC 2 projects to MVC 3, I came across a couple of tools and techniques to simplify the process.ASP.Net MVC3 requires .Net 4 and hence use of VS.Net 2010 (or express editions) are required. There's also an additional download of the MVC3 framework required too.One of the simplifying changes of the upgrade is a slimmed down web.config file - but I found this meant an in-place upgrade of this and all the necessary references rather complicated. So ins
