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DotNetNuke vs Sitefinity

In 2009 Readers' Choice awards, in the Web Content Management category,DotNetNuke Professional Edition took the runner up spot and Telerik's Sitefinity CMS received an honorable mention, dropping down from the runner up spot last year. I have used both and believe they are great products, DNN being opensource and with broader community, ...

How do I get the DateTime that a page was last published in Sitefinity?

Here is what I have: Dim cmsManager As New Telerik.Cms.CmsManager() Dim currentNode As Telerik.Cms.Web.CmsSiteMapNode = CType(SiteMap.CurrentNode, Telerik.Cms.Web.CmsSiteMapNode) Dim currentPage As Telerik.Cms.ICmsPage = currentNode.GetCmsPage() Dim currentPageId As Guid = currentPage.ID Dim pageFromDb As Telerik.Cms.IPage = cmsManager....

Using Admin Panel How we can create a aspx page in sitefinity?

how we can create the dynamic page ex. help.aspx and write the code in sitefinity. Because i facing a problem I create a page but i unable to know in which directory the page is lived. If any one help me Suggest. http://abc.com/sitefinity/admin/pages.aspx ...

RadControl DateTimePicker Selecting new time doesn't remove highlight from previous selection

This is not browser specific - the behavior exists in Firefox and IE. The RadControl is being used within a User Control in a SiteFinity site. Very little customization has been done to the control. <telerik:RadDateTimePicker ID="RadDateTimePicker1" runat="server" MinDate="2010/1/1" Width="250px"> <ClientEvents></ClientEvent...

Upgrading from Sitefinity 3.7 to 4 - what are the defining pro's?

I have a number of Sitefinity sites, running on 3.7. I am looking to hear pro's / cons for updating to version 4. Why would, or wouldn't you? Edit: forget the cons. Can anyone list convincing pro's that will make a difference for them? I'm not just looking for a re-hash of the feature list, thanks. Edit2: I still welcome comments once...

Importing into SiteFinity

I just finished installing SiteFinity 3.7 standard version on windows server 2008. Is there a way to entirely/partially import an already existing .NET project (ASP.NET) into SiteFinity with some minor changes in the code of course (may be by changinf a couple of xml files or something similar). I could only see an "export" under Adminis...

Viewstate, datatable and properties!

Hello, Im developing a user control that contains two RadGrids. When a user selects a row in grid 1, the page postsback. At that point, I create a Datatable and DataRow and add it to grid 2's datasource. The problem I am experiencing overall is that the datatable is lost and re-created every time the page is posted back. I therefore t...

Sitefinity WebSite to Web Application Project - app_code fun!

I've converted a SiteFinity (C#) app from a Website to a WebApplicationProject. It all works great..except I used to have in my App_Code a class called MaterialsModule which inherits from the base class WebModule. Problem: SiteFinity doesn't automagically see this class any more I've tried adding a namespace to the class and adding ...

Integrating aspdotnetstorefront and Telerik SiteFinity

I've been tasked with integrating aspdotnetstorefront (specifically just the shopping cart pages) with SiteFinity for it's superior CMS ability. The problem with aspdotnetstorefront is that the shopping cart is not a pluggable API. My first thought was to pull out all the ref dlls and copy the .aspx and .ascx code. I don't really see any...

WebResources in an ASP.NET website

Hi all, I'm developing a website using SiteFinity in Visual Studio 2008. This is a web site project rather than a web application project. During development I am finding myself developing lots and lots of user controls. The problem with this is that each user control needs to use some javascript and css. Now i can either include the c...

Custom 404 page on Sitefinity 3.5

How do I implement a custom 404 page on Sitefinity 3.5 using ASP.NET? ...

How to space nav buttons equally in Sitefinity radmenu

Hi Guys, I have a Radmenu which has 6 buttons in it which need to have equal spacing between them in my horizontal menu. I have managed to get this right using a percentage value but what if someone decides to add another menu button? Is there a way of aligning my UL menu in the middle of my wrapping DIV and then spacing the buttons eq...

Storing complex data in a list

Hi, I'm working with a product called SiteFinity. I have a class which looks like so: public class Categories { public IContent oContent {get; set;} } I'm then looping through a list and trying to check whether the current value already exists, like so: IList items = base.CreateDataSource(); IList filteredList = new Lis...

Load template from user control

Hello, Im working with Sitefinity and I'm developing a Control Designer - however i dont think my question is specific to SiteFinity. I have a class such as: public class CaseStudyFeaturedItem : CaseStudySelectorControlDEsignerBase The class it is inherriting from is itself inheriting from UserControl, like so: public class CaseStud...

Source code for SitefInity commuity edition?

Telerik have discontinued Sitefinity community edition...they have taken down the download link..anyone have the source code? Was the source code availble before? I like the way it worked... ...

Umbraco vs Sitefinity

hello, I am getting a large website developed. The develop has asked me which do I prefer either sitefinity or umbraco. The site will be similar to wikipedia where users can come and edit pages without having to login. I would like to ask your opionions on these two csm systems and which one would you recommend for content website with a...

sql server driver name

Hi, How do I find what string is to be put in my ASP.NET application config file in the 'driver' attribute for the dataAccess node? So here is the node to be clear: <add name="somenamehere" driver="I want to know what goes in here???" connectionStringName="somenamehere"/> Its a MS SQL Server 2008. I am sorry if this has been answered...

ASP.NET CMS - which one?

Hi We have a lot clients with CMS requirements. We use Telerik Sitefinity, which is pretty easy to use, but before we implement a whole swathe of new apps, I just want to double check we are going the right way? Telerik is a reliable company. I am not interested in "free" CMS products that will probably disappear a few years down the...

How to order a list

Hi, I have a function in sitefinity that returns a list of categories. //return list of categories private IList<ICategory> GetCategoryDataSource() { var cntManager = new ContentManager(CaseStudyManager.DefaultContentProvider); IList allCategories = cntManager.GetCategories(); List<ICategory> filteredList =...