Rendering a view or a partial view to a string is one of those tasks that need to be done often for many purposes, such as using a view as a template for sending emails or sending content to apps, but in more recent versions of Umbraco, the method in which you accomplish this has changed, especially if you need to render a view from an api controller or a controller that doesn't have a view context. - read more.
23 Jan 2024Suffering from an issue preventing Umbraco from booting up after Umbracoding Umbraco from 11.4 to 12.2, this may help. - read more.
10 Oct 2023Umbraco 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 2022How to quickly change an Umbraco API Controller to always return response as JSON. - read more.
8 May 2020Clicking the change product key link within the settings app performs no action and displays nothing. - read more.
28 Apr 2020 - 1 CommentsThis 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 CommentsHow 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 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 2019Just 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 2019When 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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