Umbraco Failed to Boot
Suffering from an issue preventing Umbraco from booting up after Umbracoding Umbraco from 11.4 to 12.2, this may help. - read more.
10 Oct 2023
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Umbraco 9 Custom Membership
Umbraco 9 is the new release of Umbraco and it uses .NET 5 rather than .Net Framework 4.x, and as such, most of the coding Behind the scenes has changes quite a bit, this means that you'll most likely... - read more.
14 Mar 2022ASP.NET Core Configuration GetSection.Get returns null
If you find yourself populating the configuration object of .NET Core using the GetSection.Get method and all of your properties have been set to null or the default value, then this quick tip may save your hours. - read more.
5 Aug 2021Return JSON as default from UmbracoApiController
How to quickly change an Umbraco API Controller to always return response as JSON. - read more.
8 May 2020Windows Server 2019 - Change product key does nothing
Clicking the change product key link within the settings app performs no action and displays nothing. - read more.
28 Apr 2020 - 1 CommentsIn-Place Upgrade for a Windows Server domain controller
This post covers the 'Active Directory on this domain controller does not contain Windows Server 2019 ADPREP /FORESTPREP updates.' error and how to overcome it. - read more.
28 Apr 2020 - 1 CommentsDisabling XAML Hot Reload
How to disable the XAML Hot Reload feature in Xamarin for Visual Studio under UI Debugging Tools for XAML. - read more.
20 Jan 2020 - 3 CommentsXamarin Forms Carousel View
Xamarin Forms has become for me, a great tool for easily creative mobile applications with speed. But where it has many great features, it also unfortunately still has a lot of bugs and incomplete or experimental features. CarouselView is one of them, so lets look at possible uses for the CarouselView, its upsides and its downfalls. We'll also look into possible alternatives and whether you should use them or not. - read more.
29 Jul 2019How To: Firebase Cloud Messaging on Android and iOS with Xamarin
Just a quick tutorial on how to get Firebase Cloud Messaging working on Xamarin Forms for both Android and iOS. Android: text See http://lukealderton.com/blog/posts/2017/january/systemtypeloadexceptio... - read more.
1 May 2019SQL Select Row Count With Results
When you're working with a large database and have to search that result set with paging, your first thought might be to select all results and then do the manipulation/count on the web server, sure that'd work, but it isn't exactly the most performant approach. Let's take a look at other ways we can produce some easily understood and most importantly, fast code. - read more.
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