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Umbraco running on a Load Balanced IIS 7.5 configuration

I have an Umbraco website that is running on IIS7.5 and is Load Balanced. The users are updating via one side only so that we don't get any issues whilst updating the site. The problem is, each day we have to force a restart of the website by touching the web.config file. If we don't touch the web.config file, the users are displayed ...

check property existence

hello folks., in umbraco, is it possible to check if certain property exist for particular node ? for example, i am having 5 nodes and i am having media picker property for first node alone.. i need to check all the nodes whether media picker property is available for nodes or not? thank you ...

Umbraco template issues

Hi fellow Umbraco users, I'm currently building my first umbraco website and since I'm completely new to umbraco I've already ran into a problem which I'm sure is pretty straight-forward to do. That said, I'm by no means a beginner when it comes to building sites that run on a (open source) CMS as I've been using Joomla! since it was c...

lightweight search engine for asp.net

I'm looking to develop a CMS project based on UMBRACO but I also need to index the documents created and to offer search functionality therefore I would like to know if you have any suggestion for a lightweight search engine available in .net technology. The main requirement is to be simple and efficient (nothing complex like solr or sp...

asp:login form does not submit when you hit enter

I am having an issues while using the <asp:login> tag. When a user clicks the "login" button, the form will process correctly. However, when the user hits the enter key, the form self submits and does not process the login, whether it was correct information or not. I am using a combination of MasterPages, and Umbraco. My aspx code l...

Umbraco: Handling In Page Javascript in Uswe Controls

I have quite a number of user controls that I need to embed in Umbraco macros. Each user control has quite a bit of in page javascript that needs loaded into the page. I have been building up the javascript with StringBuilder.Appendline then registering a startup script with code behind but this stinks and I feel there has to be a bett...

Can the SQlMembershipProvider be used with umbraco

Does anybody have an examples of this, from what I've read umbraco kicks up a bit of a stink but I can't find any examples ...

JQUERY - how Two elements - IMG - DIV when hover over IMG show/hide the DIV - added with hover hide/show on img allready

Im very new to the wonder that is jquery. and i just figure out how to make my img buttons show/hide with a opacity difference (as such) <script type="text/javascript"> <![CDATA[ $(".ExcommKnap").mouseover(function () { $(this).stop().fadeTo('fast', 0.5, function(){}) }); $(".ExcommKnap").mouseout(function () { $(this).stop().fad...

how to send json data to asmx (from aspx) using jquery?

i built contact form in aspx 3.5 and i'm using jquery to send it to web service (asmx). the web service need to return success or error code. the problem is that at the web method i get only single value and not array. I'm kind of new in ajax and i tried a lot of solutions but without any results.. please if you can only explain me the p...

Umbraco IE error in tinymce3tinymceCompress.aspx

When using the latest Release version (4.0.4.2) of Umbraco, the tinymce3 control fails to show/load in the backoffice of umbraco. Instead a JavaScript error is shown: --- ERROR CONTENT --- Message: Invalid argument. Line: 1 Char: 14609 Code: 0 URI: http://example.com/umbraco/plugins/tinymce3/tinymce3tinymceCompress.aspx?rnd=5c8e3f37-f...

Running Umbraco source code in Windows 7 only produces login screen

I am trying to get started in development of my website and plugins using Umbraco. When I download the binaries from Codeplex, the installation and running of the website works fine. When I downloaded the source code, All I get is a login screen even when the web.config files are the same. Am I doing something wrong or is there something...

Creating a custom datatype in Umbraco

I am trying to create a custom datatype. The intention being a dropdown list. As of right now, I can access the control I created but no properties or values are showing up within it. Just the blank drop down. public partial class usercontrols_admin_customDataType_CountryDropDown : System.Web.UI.UserControl, umbraco.editorCont...

How would I rewrite this XSLT to C# and get the same results?

Basically, I have some xslt that I have written and I want to migrate the same functionality to C#. I know I have to use XPath and such, but I am having trouble properly accessing the right nodes and attributes. Here is the functionality I want to translate: <xsl:for-each select="$mediaNode/node"> <xsl:variable name="mediaNodeNam...

Storing Umbraco settings on the file system and packaging changes for deployment

Does anybody know of an easy way to store Umbraco settings (Document Types, Media Types etc) on the file system in order to manage that data within source control? Note: changes to settings made on the file system need to be easily integrated back into the CMS database. Also, does anybody know of a way to package up settings from a dev...

Do ASP.Net MVC Portable areas work with Umbraco?

I have an Umbraco website that I want to extend. I feel that ASP.Net MVC is the way to go for the extension I'm writing - I particularly like the idea of a Portable Area from MVCContrib. What I'm wondering is, how straightforward would it be to incorporate the Portable Area into Umbraco without recompiling the source? More generally, is...

Umbraco - Get name of top level section?

Hi, on my Umbraco site I have a few top level pages (about us, what we do, etc) and within these pages there are a handful of sub pages. How would I go about getting the name of the top level section (eg about us) whilst on a page within that section? For example, If I am at http://www.example.com/about/subpage, How would I get 'About'...

Filter XML from searchparameters

Hi there folks! I'm creating a small search function on a site I'm creating. I'm working with Umbraco CMS, and all the nodes that I need to search are children of the page that are being searched on. Right now I have a search box with seven fields. three input fields and four dropdown's. This is the XML that I need to find my results f...

Umbraco XSLT - Retrieving a nodes 'pageImage' when listing

I've got a news page on my site, which lists all the subpages (news articles) in a macro. Each of the subpages has an image (alias pageImage) I've got the following XSLT code, but It's not working: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;"> ]> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xml...

Create UserControl to display a list of DocumentType in Umbraco 4.1

Hi, I'm new to Umbraco and I like it so far, I understand how it works but I'd like to know how, and what is the best way, to create usercontrols that display some informations from umbraco's DB? When it's simple, I do it with XSL template but now I need more possibilities. What I try to do is have a UC that connect to Umbraco's DB, fe...

Using a custom class file in Umbraco XSLT

I'm trying to reference a custom class file in XSLT code. I deployed it as a DLL file to the /Bin directory. Keep getting this error: System.Xml.Xsl.XslTransformException: Cannot find the script or external object that implements prefix 'urn:sso'. CS File Declarations: namespace SSOUtilities { public class sso XSLT Re...