A fresh design and a completely new website build
Well it's taken long enough but I now have a fresh design courtesy of Sam Kitson and a completely new build using Umbraco 7.2. Streamlined and sleek, just what I was hoping for.
Sam Kitson
Umbraco
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With over 20 years of experience in corporate and agency .Net web development, Digbyswift can meet and support your requirements. We specialise in Azure, Umbraco CMS solutions.
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Making Spaces goes live
Making Spaces went live today and although this isn't something I built myself I'm pleased I was able to help.
Wix
Changing Umbraco's backoffice address
By default your backoffice would be accessible at /umbraco. This not only provides users an opportunity to (try and) access the backoffice but it also divulges the fact that you are using Umbraco and .Net and it may be possible to exploit this - neither Umbraco nor .Net are flawless.
Umbraco
Async/await in Umbraco custom controllers
Custom controllers in Umbraco natively support async/await operations but it's not clear how to implement an asynchronous controller correctly.
Umbraco
Async
Async/await in Umbraco custom controllers - Part 2
Following on from my original post about a bug in async/await actions in custom controllers in Umbraco 6 & 7, I did some investigations and found the cause. So I thought I'd outline my solution for all those who can't upgrade. It's also an interesting trip into code that you wouldn't normally touch.
Umbraco
Async
Creating a file patch with in TortoiseSVN
I wanted to create a patch containing all the updated files but with the folder structure of my website. This way I could simply FTP the patch up to my website without having to upload any additional files. I’d love to know if there was a better or simpler method but this is what I did.
TortoiseSVN
Source Control
Exception handling – why prevention is worse than cure
There are many ways to upset a user and moving the user to a new “Whoops, we did something wrong!” page would certainly upset the user.
Logging
Elmah
Log4net
Exception handling
Use SQL User-defined Types for more consistency in your database
So you’d like more consistency in your database? Try SQL User-Defined Types (UDT). The concept is simple. You essentially create a new, custom type based upon an existing type but with predefined properties.
SQL
Sending filtered exceptions to Airbrake using Elmah
Send filtered .Net exception notifications to an Airbrake-based management tool using Elmah's HttpModules.
Elmah
Exception handling
Airbrake