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First look at how to develop an Android app

ted — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:34:00 +0100

Developing applications for Android I recently bought myself an HTC Hero and naturally that made me curious to know how you develop Android applications since I’m used to Microsoft Visual Studio and its great support for mobile device delopment targeting Windows Mobile. Android development...

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Upload photos to Flickr using .NET

ted — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:47:00 +0100

Goal of the implementation I needed an application running on a web server to automatically upload photos to Flickr using .NET – and it had to be done without manual intervention. That is, I wanted to authenticate once and then re-use that authentication for all future Flickr API...

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Introduction to EPiServer Dynamic Data Store (DDS)

ted — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:41:00 +0100

Goal of the implementation In this post we’ll go through the steps of implementing page comments using the Dynamic Data Store. Focus will be the data store, not the UI parts of commenting! :) Add a reference to EPiServer.Data In order to work with dynamic data in EPiServer you may want to...

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Create a gadget for EPiServer 6 using ASP.NET MVC

ted — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:40:00 +0100

Pre-conditions Before continuing, make sure you’ve installed: EPiServer CMS 6 CTP 2 ASP.NET MVC 1.0 ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is available as a separate download, but I chose to install it through Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer: Prepare your project for ASP.NET MVC Add ASP.NET...

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First impressions of EPiServer CMS 6 CTP 2

ted — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:49:00 +0100

Update: EPiServer CMS 6 CTP 2 is now publicly available for download from EPiServer World Talking points on EPiServer 6 Some of the most important talking points on EPiServer CMS 6 include: New rich-text editor (TinyMCE) that fully supports Firefox SiteCenter, a new dashboard-like UI based on...

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Parse an EPiServer XHTML property with Dynamic Content

ted — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:41:00 +0100

Render Dynamic Content without the Property control Outputting EPiServer property values are often done using the EPiServer Property control: <EPiServer:Property PropertyName="MainBody" runat="server" /> Using the Property control will render XHTML properties correctly (obviously),...

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Improve ASP.NET performance with Trace and Cache

ted — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:26:00 +0100

Tracing and caching overview Simply put, tracing is used to identify how long it takes to execute certain blocks of code, and to identify which parts take the longest to load. Caching is the process of storing certain results in memory to reduce the number of lengthy look-ups, for example...

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TweetMeme .NET API code samples

ted — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:45:00 +0100

Code samples for the TweetMeme .NET API About a week has passed since the first humble checkin of source code to the TweetMeme.NET Codeplex project. After some initial bug fixes I think it’s time for a follow-up with some code samples to show how TweetMeme.NET can be used to consume the...

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How to create a widget for BlogEngine.NET

ted — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:10:00 +0100

What are widgets? The BlogEngine.NET API is pretty solid; extensions and widgets are a breeze to implement to extend the platform. Widgets are in some ways similar to web parts in that they can be placed in specific zones and contain an arbitrary number of settings that can be set when a widget is...

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TweetMeme.NET, a .NET API for TweetMeme

ted — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:49:00 +0100

Updated code samples are available here! What TweetMeme.NET does TweetMeme.NET is basically a wrapper project for the TweetMeme API so that .NET developers can retrieve TweetMeme data through C#. Current features of TweetMeme.NET includes: Number of retweets for a specific URL URL-specific...

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Using Team Explorer with Codeplex

ted — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:04:00 +0100

I’ve just created my first project on Codeplex, called TweetMeme.NET, and I just wanted to mention how easy it is to set up Visual Studio Team System to work with Codeplex for versioning (checking in and out code, etc). The server name, user name and port number is available at Codeplex....

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ScrewTurn, an open-source ASP.NET wiki application

ted — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:51:00 +0100

What is ScrewTurn wiki? ScrewTurn wiki is a free, open-source wiki web application built on ASP.NET (WebForms, not MVC). It uses XML for the data layer as opposed to a relational database. Installing ScrewTurn ScrewTurn can be installed through Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer, by...

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Overview of EPiServer versus Umbraco

ted — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:52:00 +0100

EPiServer vs. Umbraco, purpose of this post Both developers and clients have on numerous occasions asked me what the differences are between EPiServer and Umbraco, which one is the “best”, why choose “costly” EPiServer when Umbraco is “free”, which one would...

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Use your own domain with FeedBurner

ted — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:38:00 +0100

Using your domain for the FeedBurner URL Normally, a feed exposed through FeedBurner has a URL like: http://feeds.feedburner.com/yourfeedname However, using the MyBrand function of FeedBurner you can get a URL like: http://feeds.yourdomain.com/yourfeedname You don’t even have to call the...

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Introduction to the PageTypeBuilder project

Ted — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:02:00 +0100

Different approaches for enabling strongly typed EPiServer page types EPiServer’s native approach The default approach for managing EPiServer page types looks like this: As you can see, the EPiServer GUI is used to manage page type definitions stored in the EPiServer database. For the sake...

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Implementing multi-language websites in Umbraco

ted — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:30:00 +0100

Globalization paradigm of Umbraco If you don’t need/want the high-level description of multi-language support in Umbraco, then simply skip to the Define languages for your Umbraco website below. The main idea behind Umbraco’s language support is to maintain one site structure per...

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Doing my part for retiring Internet Explorer 6

ted — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:14:00 +0100

Adding the IE6 No More “warning” From now on, if you visit this blog using IE6 you’ll see the following: As a matter of fact, I have never tried opening this blog in IE6. Feel free to comment if you do browse to it using IE6! :) It’s worth noting that a mere 5,8% of...

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Problems after deleting a language in Umbraco

ted — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:22:00 +0100

Removing languages in Umbraco can cause problems If you delete a language in Umbraco you may encounter some problems – I know I did. When you assign a domain and a language to a node in Umbraco using Manage hostnames the node will be associated to the language through its unique integer...

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Call .NET extension methods in Umbraco XSLT

ted — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:12:00 +0100

Enabling extension classes for XSLT in Umbraco XSLT is commonly used in Umbraco for macros. Although XSLT is well suited for dealing with the XML structures of Umbraco, I often find it valuable to extend XSLT with .NET extension methods. The /config folder of your Umbraco website contains a...

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Should consultants submit fixed price tenders?

ted — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:32:00 +0100

The idea behind a fixed price tender Before we do anything else, let’s review the definition of a fixed price tender offer: A one-time offer to purchase a stated number of shares at a stated fixed price, usually at a premium over the current market price. Yes, this pertains to stock...

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