Umbraco

This is how you can move your MSSQL database from dev environment to production. Or if you just need a backup before doing an upgrade. Log in to SQL Management Studio 2014 (it's free) Right click on the database you want to copy and choose Tasks -> Generate Script Choose "Objects" and select "Tables" "Next" under "save to file" choose advanced Script: DROP and CREATE Script for server version 2008 Types of data to script: Schema and Data Choose a place to save the SQL file to Next, Finish! Then just run this script on your production server. If you are overriding an old Umbraco installation i usually get some errors...

Lately i have been having trouble with old Umbraco sites not having the latest security updates. Weird files are added in the root of the site with spam links. This is the workflow i use when security upgrade on Umbraco 4 or 6. I don't really have the guts to alter version 3 sites anymore. Start off with making a backup on the database and the files of the site you are going to upgrade. Download the latest release of the version you are upgrading. Extract into a folder, i usually just name the folder after the release (eg, "4.11.10"). Then create a new folder called "upgrade" and copy the following files and folders...

Red bastards A bastard (or an orphan as you say outside Sweden) is a problem that occurs when a word, part of a word, or a very short line appears by itself at the end of a paragraph. Since most text on the web is not static and probably even have a dynamic width you will very likely end up with this problem. This is how you make your editors happy by letting them slay some bastards. No Wrap You can set the CSS property ´white space´ to ´no-wrap´. This will make line to never wrap to a new line. But we can't add this to all paragraphs. Then we'd get some pretty long lines of paragraphs. So we'll have...

This is second part of my Getting Back to Visual Studio-post. With Visual Studio 2015 and MVC 6 the Microsoft team have given the front end some extra attention. Web essentials ditching the Sass, Less, Coffeescript compiler in favor for Gulp/Grunt and the new folder structure is evidence of that. Normally if you make for example a Laravel-project you'll have the front end preprocessor stuff in a Resources-folder and compile that to the app folder. Or if you make a theme to Wordpress or Ghost you'll probably have a src-folder and compile it to the theme-folder. This workflow will be a lot easier to mimic with the release of MVC 6. But right now we are working with MVC...

The way i have been working with Umbraco in the past is with webmatrix. Everything was very basic. Downloaded the latest zipped version from Our Umbraco, unzipped, rename unzipped folder to project name, right click on said folder and Open as website with Microsoft Webmatrix. I have an external MSSQL database but everything else was kind of "out of the box". Why Visual Studio? I never got Webmatrix to work well with NuGet. Either it just didn't fire up or it slowed down Webmatrix so bad i couldn't work with it. As more and more Umbraco packages get NuGet support it really would streamline a lot of the work process to get it to work. So I've been...