In this blog post, we will go through what it takes to setup a new Umbraco CMS for hosting in Azure. If you can’t be bothered hosting this on your own, you can always use Umbraco’s cloud offering, and skip this entire tutorial. There are three steps: Azure – prepare your resources (web app, database,
In this blog post, we will go through how you can setup your Umbraco media files to use an Azure storage account. This process involves installing the NuGet package UmbracoFileSystemProviders.Azure. Pre-requisites: Before proceeding below, make sure you already have an Azure Blob storage account with at least one container (i.e. media) and that you have
Today, I implemented an XML sitemap in my Umbraco 7.7.9 installation. Here are the things I had to do: Create a Sitemap document type Create a Sitemap macro Create a rule for IIS URL rewriting of the sitemap.xml Author the Sitemap content page Sitemap document type My document type involves two properties which will allow
I have almost always used Unity in my applications but today I’ve had to fix broken code due to a recent installation of Unity in an Umbraco solution. While you can install Unity just like you would on any other ASP.NET application, it turns out that there are some Umbraco controllers/types that you need to
Umbraco’s site installation comes with an SDF database. For obvious reasons, I needed to migrate this to SQL Server. Below are the steps I took to make it work. Before proceeding to the steps below, you will need to install following: ExportSqlCE40.exe which you can download from here SQL Server Compact 4.0 Runtime from here
