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Expose SpamProtector (Captcha) as a public property of a ContentView based control

Each ContentView based control represents content items that have been created from the backend or programmatically. The ContentView based control has two modes List - shows all items as a list. Details - shows a single item from the list. Build-in ContentView based controls are - ... Full Article

By Ivan Dimitrov on Monday, March 01, 2010 in Looking good! Comments (2)
Optimize backend CategoriesView performance in Sitefinity 3.7

Recently we received several bug reports from some of our customers about problems with CategoriesView performance when they have over 200 categories. We ran some test and it turned out that the counting that we perform and the view structure produced very large output. This leads ... Full Article

By Ivan Dimitrov on Monday, February 15, 2010 in Performance Comments (1)
SiteMenu Builder

This post will show you how to create custom navigation menu for your website, where you can specify which pages you want to see and which not. There are many cases where you want to have two level navigation or several navigational menus. Each time you ... Full Article

By Ivan Dimitrov on Saturday, February 13, 2010 in Gotchas Comments (3)
Save Images from the Images and Documents module back to the file system

When you upload images from your file system to Sitefinity using Images and Documents module all items go to the database as binary object. In some cases you may need to get this Images back to your file system - upload them in another project, back ... Full Article

By Ivan Dimitrov on Sunday, January 31, 2010 in Gotchas Comments (9)
Implementing scheduled services in Sitefinity 3.x

In this post I will show you how to create scheduled services that could be executed on a certain period of time - hourly, daily, weekly, monthly etc. The post will expose web service that runs a Sitefinity search index. The implementation requires 1.Creating a ... Full Article

By Ivan Dimitrov on Friday, January 22, 2010 in Gotchas Comments (0)
Implement Forum subscription in Sitefinity 3.x

In this post I will show you how you can implement Forum subscription in Sitefinity. Instead of going each time to a given post you can just subscribe to the forum post and receive email notification once someone reply to you or you just want to ... Full Article

By Ivan Dimitrov on Tuesday, January 05, 2010 in Core Sitefinity Comments (2)
Christmas Bonus - Workflow with comments in Sitefinity 3.x

In this blog post I will show you how to create a workflow with comments. This is very useful when the workflow for your website is enabled and you want to leave a message to your content editors why a give content has been approved, declined, ... Full Article

By Ivan Dimitrov on Friday, December 25, 2009 in Core Sitefinity Comments (6)
Insert/Update/Delete content items with RadScheduler for ASP.NET AJAX

In this blog post I am showing how to create a custom RadScheduler control that can be used to insert/update and delete content items. Generally the implementation is related to Events provider and IEvent objects. All data for the items managed through this control is persisted ... Full Article

By Ivan Dimitrov on Saturday, December 19, 2009 in Gotchas Comments (0)
Filter CategoriesTree control by Blog.

The main reason of this post is a discussion that I had in Sitefinity's forum post. So, the problem here is that you have BlogPosts control that supports filtering , but the same does not apply for CategoriesTree control. Using BlogPosts FilterExpression property you can ... Full Article

By Ivan Dimitrov on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 in Gotchas Comments (0)
Insert/Update/Delete content items with RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX

In the following blog post I'm going to show you how to create a custom control that uses one of the most powerful controls form Telerik.Web.UI suite - RadGrid for ASP.NET AJAX and its functionality to Insert/Update/Delete content items. The control will allow you to populate ... Full Article

By Ivan Dimitrov on Sunday, December 06, 2009 in Core Sitefinity Comments (0)

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