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This post explains to you what .NET Core is, what it is used for and tells you whether you need to use it or not.
dotnet How to fix the error 'The following sections have been defined but have not been rendered for the layout page...'This post shows you how to solve the error 'The following sections have been defined but have not been rendered for the layout page'
umbraco How to search by document type and property in UmbracoThis post shows you how to search by specific document types and fields in umbraco, using Examine.
sql How to convert SQL Server Compact Edition .sdf to Full SQL and speed up UmbracoThis post shows you how to convert a SQL Compact Edition database to full SQL and speed up Umbraco
umbraco How to find the Home page in UmbracoThis post shows you how to find the home page (root node) in Umbraco. It shows you how to do it in a View, and in a Controller.
umbraco Umbraco Related Links into C# Class ObjectsThis post gives you a handy little helper method to turn your related links property into a C# class object to make it easier to work with.
umbraco How to get the current logged in Umbraco user and restrict front end contentThis post shows you how to get the current logged in Umbraco user and restrict content on the front end of the site.
dotnet How to add reCAPTCHA to an MVC formThis blog post makes it easy for you to set up Google reCAPTCHA on your MVC website. It also works with Umbraco.
dotnet Open-source Project: Password GeneratorI recently caught the bug of contributing to open-source projects after my first pull request was accepted. I enjoyed it so much that I decided to make an open-source library for my password generator. It is a C# .NET project.
umbraco Simple Umbraco RSS XML Feed ExampleIn this post I give you a simple template to start using for your own RSS XML feed. It's very simple and straight forward.
umbraco How to start using Dependency Injection in MVC and UmbracoThis post has the code and a video you need to help you start using Dependency Injection in MVC and Umbraco
dotnet How to change a form in MVC to submit with AJAXIn this video you will see how to change the form to submit using AJAX. I recorded this video live for my livecoding channel. The code I wrote for this tutorial is further down this post.