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137 results in DevOps, SQL, Umbraco

sql The day I hacked Troy Hunt's website to delete my data

I needed to remove my personal details from Troy Hunt's website. This post shows you why and how I did it.

umbraco How to get the website domain address in Umbraco

This post shows you how to get the current umbraco website domain address including http(s):// in the simplest way possible.

umbraco How to create a simple FAQs page in Umbraco using Archetype in 7 easy steps

Ironically, this question gets asked a lot, so I thought I would show you how simple and easy it is to create an FAQs page in Umbraco using the Archetype package, in 7 easy steps.

umbraco How to protect media items in Umbraco

This post shows you how to protect media in Umbraco. It works on the idea that you can put the media you want to protect in a parent folder.

umbraco Simple Web API Helper for Umbraco and MVC

This post gives you the code to help you build an API url with the parameters and a quick way to call a simple get method and parse the results to the object you are expecting back from the API.

umbraco How to create a custom Html Helper Extension Method in MVC and Umbraco

This post shows you how you can create a custom Html Helper Extension Method for your own Umbraco and MVC projects.

umbraco How to create a custom 404 page handler via a package action in Umbraco

This post shows you how you can use package actions to modify, update, or set configurations for your Umbraco site on your package install event.

umbraco How to set up Continuous Deployment for MVC and Umbraco using AppVeyor

This guide walks you Through how to set up AppVeyor for continuous delivery of an MVC or Umbraco site.

umbraco How to fix the error 'No physical template file was found for template X'

This post shows you how to fix the error No physical template file was found for template X. There is an animated which shows you how to fix it.

umbraco Why is Umbraco CMS so rubbish?

You may have used it before, or you may be using it now and the thought might go through your head 'Why is Umbraco so rubbish' or other words to that effect.

sql How to migrate or downgrade a SQL Server database to a lower version

This post shows you how you can migrate or downgrade a SQL Server database from one version to a lower or earlier one. E.g. 2016 to 2014, 2014 to 2012, 2012 to 2008 etc

umbraco How to use an Umbraco data type to populate an MVC Drop Down List

If you use Umbraco and you create forms using MVC and razor, perhaps a contact form, you might want to populate a dropdownlist with data controlled by the Umbraco backoffice. This post shows you how to do that.