One of the things that has always annoyed me about unix-based systems is the fact that they are case-sensitive. While I understand the need to differentiate between the two, and the advantages it CAN bring, in my opinion, it’s just not worth the hassle. Since Windows servers ignore the case of requests, it should theoretically […]
Category: Web Development
In the first post on my Sitefinity Toolkit series, I’ll be introducing the SiteMap Generator, which creates an ashx handler to automatically create an XML Sitemap. This can be submitted to Bing, Google, or any other search engine. Installation Download and install the Sitefinity Toolkit to your bin directory. Be sure to download the correct […]
It’s no secret that I am a devout fan of the Sitefinity content management system by Telerik. But in developing a handful of sites over the past few years, I’ve discovered that I’m doing a lot of things over and over that I wish were part of the Sitefinity core. That’s where the Sitefinity Toolkit […]
As a developer, one of the things I hate most about my job is when people call me to fix their login errors, especially when the problem is a forgotten password: Are you sure you remember your password? Yes. Are you sure you typed the password correctly? YES! Are you SURE? YES!! Do you have […]
If you need to ensure that the RadPanelBar control (which I use for sidebar navigation) remains expanded, check out the RadPanelbar1_ItemDataBound method in the control located at /Sitefinity/UserControls/Navigation35/SitePanelBar.ascx. This control checks the hideUrlForGroupPages, removing the link if set to true on your control. However, this doesn’t prevent the link from being active, collapsing the nodes […]
One of the recent features added to Sitefinity that I’ve recently begun making use of is the Viddler video integration. However, the module itself stands alone, and I was in need of a way to link the individual videos to specific news stories, and vice-versa. Fortunately, after spending some time with my favorite tool Reflector […]
In case you are using some of the Custom Index Providers I blogged about previously, you may encounter some errors when upgrading to the new Sitefinity 3.6 SP1 that was released this week. The problem is that the IIndexerInfo interface how requires a new method, ResolveIndexPath(). Since the Sitefinity team is still catching up on […]
This post is for anyone who is encountering the following errors in their asp.net applications: The server tag ‘asp:ScriptManager’ is ambiguous. Please modify the associated registration that is causing ambiguity and pick a new tag prefix. The base class includes the field ‘ScriptManager1’, but its type (System.Web.UI.ScriptManager) is not compatible with the type of control […]
On my personal website I have a section where I feature my music, categorized as songs I’ve written, remixed, and mix sets that I’ve produced. Using the built-in category view for generic content, I can show different lists of my music based on the selected category passed via query string. Unfortunately, Sitefinity currently shows the […]
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 […]