As many of you may already know, the SQL Azure July 2011 Service Release increased the database engine version of SQL Azure from 10 to 11 which caused many applications to stop working as soon as this update was applied to the data center they were running in. Sitefinity was ...
Sitefinity’s booth was immensely popular at the 3-day Internet World exhibition which took place in London from 10-12 May 2011. The Telerik team had the chance to demo the sleek interface of Sitefinity CMS to all interested visitors and speak to a great number of prospective clients and partners. A ...
The Telerik Sitefinity team has been extremely busy at Internet World 2011. There has been huge interest towards Sitefinity and we are very happy to have the chance to demonstrate our product and the capabilities it offers to all of you. Internet World is also a unique opportunity to meet ...
Good day to all of you Sitefinity enthusiasts out there. I’m Slavo, a developer on the Sitefinity team and here’s my first post on the Sitefinity blogs. You’ve probably already downloaded and installed the 3.7 release we shipped a while ago (if you haven’t now is a good time). I ...
On my last post about Facebook, I showed you how to get started using the popular social networking tool. Though I did get to Facebook integration during my recent webinar, you can get the sample code for FaceBook integration here. Before proceeding, please read the Facebook blog post I ...
Here is a very simple way on how to use RadDock control in Sitefinity. You can add RadDock in a .master page thus gaining the ability to "move around" whole sections of controls freely on the page. How to: 1. Create a master.page file. 2. Add the RadDock control ...
Here are few guide lines on how to wrap Telerik's Silverlight controls so they can be used in Sitefinity. In this example I will use the RadCube and the GridView silverlight controls. How to: 1. Make sure you have installed Telerik's Silverlight controls and Visual Studio Silverlight Tools. 2. Open ...
**Sample Code is Available Here** Introduction You can show RSS Feeds from 3rd party websites because RSS Feed data is in XML, so you just need to load it into a dataset, select a table from it, and bind it to a data-bound control. This article will discuss ...
Another webinar has been scheduled for Thursday, June 4th at 11 am EST. I will be discussing integrating Sitefinity with Facebook, Amazon and other popular APIs. Code samples and more info on this integration is available on my past blog posts. Here is some info about the webinar: Integrating ...
Creating a simple wrapper for the Media Player is easy. Such control can be used to play *.wmv files directly from Sitefinity Custom/Video library or from outside source - such as physical file or a video streaming web source. The first case is demonstrated in VideoWrapper. How to:...
**Sample Code Available Here** Introduction In a basic view, an e-Commerce system is a product list, a shopping cart and a checkout area. Many businesses will provide you with a shopping cart and checkout area. Often, they pass a small fee to your customers for their services. Sitefinity can provide ...
**Sample Code Available Here** Introduction Facebook offers a C# API that allows you to display a friend list on your website. To implement this within Sitefinity, you must obtain a Facebook user account, obtain a Facebook API Key, download the facebook SDK, bind a Repeater to your friend list, and ...
Introduction YouTube, which is owned by Google, offers an RSS Feed of video content from their website. Software developers can subscribe to these feeds, which include feeds by keyword, a user's playlist, and most watched videos. Although there are many feeds you can use, this article will show to how ...
Earlier, I did a blog post on integrating Amazon Associates API into Sitefinity. Although that widget works fine, what is you want to the product list look a certain way? What if you want to show a specific product based on an ID number, which Amazon calls an ASIN? If ...
Introduction Amazon.com offers a sales associate service where you can receive a 15% of the purchase price as compensation. By placing a special widget on your website, choosing some products to advertise, uploading a user control with special JavaScript on your website, you can easily use your website to earn ...
Using a LoginView control, you could bind a RadGrid to a specific library and place it inside of the LoginView's Logged in template. The code below binds a library called documents to a RadGrid, then hides the content based on a user's role: LoginViewTest.ascx <%@ Control Language=...
Introduction Sitefinity cannot hide image, document or video libraries out of the box. You can, however, hide these libraries by overriding the library repeater's item databound event, finding the download link and disabling it. Overriding Templates Before reading the article below, please read this article on overriding views. Instructions...
WebUI Test Studio is very powerful tool for functional testing of Web 2.0 applications and Sitefinity is one of the leading CMS for Web 2.0 sites. In addition to this, Sitefinity heavily relies on Telerik Asp.Net Ajax controls: building blocks of Sitefinity pages and fully supported test objects of WebUI ...
In the previous article “Performance Optimizations - Why Output Cache is Important” we saw a brief overview of output caching and how it can help overall performance and experience of our sites. We also narrowed down possible problems that output caching may impose in certain scenarios. In this ...
I’m starting a series of articles on performance optimizations in Sitefinity. In the first article I will explain what Output Cache is, how it works, what options Sitefinity offers and why does it matter. ASP.Net is a great technology allowing us to easily create dynamic pages. Dynamic as opposed to ...