Sitefinity Blogs

We have published new developer manual and we are not happy with it. But, that’s the good news. Namely, we weren’t able to explain everything we wanted, but we also didn’t want to make you wait six months until we are “happy”, so we decided we will release the new manual at the point when it becomes better and more useful than the old manual. And we believe today is the day!Before I go into details about the manual, let me just explain why is it good news that we are not happy with the new manual....

  Nice title, ehh? Since everyone seems to be releasing something these days, I thought I’d give it a try on my blog as well. From now on, I’ll be branding all the code samples.  For the time being all the samples will be released under RandomSFCode label (until I come with something more along the web 2.0 lines) and the first control is MetaMaster 2008 (even though it sounds like it could help you lose 20 lbs in 10 days, it won’t. Nevertheless, talk to your physician about it. He may like it.)So,...

In the HOW TO: Create control designer for user control post I have very nicely explained everything, except that I have zipped completely wrong files. I am really sorry for that and apologize to anyone who ran into problems and frustration with that code sample.On the bright side, it took me just about a month to figure that out and post this fixed code sample. :)Here is the sample code for that post that actually works. The instructions and explanations are same as in the previous post.

In case you've missed the post on the forum, we have released Service Pack 2 for Sitefinity 3.2 on Friday. As usually, not to repeat ourselves the full info about the release, installation instruction, known issues and of course the download link you can find at the forum announcement here.Let us know what you think.

We’ve had archive control as a Sitefinity built in control for a brief time, however there were some performance issues with it, so we took it out - until we get time to rebuild it.We’ve got quite a few complaints about removing that control and most of the people told us the old control worked just fine for them. So, I’ve created a new ArchiveControl for blogs and will publish it in this post, together with the source.The basic ideaTo have archive functionality on our site, we obviously need an...

Thanks to our great community we have discovered a hard-to-track bug that happens on websites with a greater amount of traffic. Since you may be experiencing this bug as well, we’ve decided to publish the workaround here on the blog as well as some background.The error manifests itself every so often and the page you see looks like this:The backgroundThe bug happens mostly on websites with higher amounts of traffic and it happens when the same page is requested concurrently, at the very same moment....

As many of you have discovered, Events module did not make it to the developers documentation. We've tried to squeeze it in, but there was simply no time. So to all of you trying to develop something against the Events module I'd like to point out the walkthrough we've received from Joseph Guadagno, an active member of Sitefinity community. It's a well done walkthrough with great structure and most importantly, it's very useful. You can find it here : http://www.josephguadagno.net/Articles/1/Technical-Articles/8/TelerikEvents.aspxKudos...

As you may have noticed on some of our controls, when you edit them in a page editor, there are two modes for editing the control (or setting the properties). There is a simple and advanced way. In this post I am going to explain how to achieve this same functionality for the user controls you create and upload to Sitefinity toolbox.First of all, let’s see what are the pros and cons of the two editor modes, which will also show you why do we chose to have two editor modes instead of one. As you can...

I am really glad to inform everyone that we have released Service Pack 1 for Sitefinity 3.2 version. Ton of issues have been fixed, and most of the medium trust issues - which I am sure will be a really good news to everyone taking advantage of our deal with DiscountASP.NET.Not to repeat the official announcement, word-by-word, to find out more please go here. Link for download, release notes and all the usual suspects can be found there.

As it is painfully obvious from the absence of new post, I am really busy these days working on the upcoming Service Pack for Sitefinity 3.2. So, until I get back and continue the started series and start some new projects on the blog I've been thinking about for a while, I wanted to inform you about a really cool deal you can get on DiscountASP.NET.Namely, Telerik struck a deal with DiscountASP.NET, leading ASP.NET hosting service, which offers hosting for Sitefinity and gives a 15% off Sitefinity...