By John Bubriski on April 19, 2011
In this article I’ll show you how to create a special type of BizForm that will allow each user to edit their specific form data over and over. When a user returns to a page that has the BizForm on it, their data will be automatically loaded from the BizForm table. This is a simple and easy way to store per user data, without mucking with the System Tables which aren’t intended to store this type of data. You also retain the benefits that a BizForm has over a System Table (A view of the data, Notifications, attachments, etc.)[...]
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By John Bubriski on December 3, 2010
Kentico is great but nobody is perfect! One small detail they’ve missed is a checkbox control that you can set to be “required”. By required I mean “You have to check this box”. After doing some Googling, I found this thread which confirmed my suspicion: http://devnet.kentico.com/Forums/f45/t17269/Making-a-Required-CheckBox-in-Alternative-Form.aspx?replyto=17359 “We have validators for empty values, which means that [...]
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By John Bubriski on October 25, 2010
If you ever do something like this… try { // Some potentially dangerous code } catch (Exception ex) { // Do nothing and swallow the exception } …DON’T. There is never a good reason to do this! If you have this code in a Class Library the problem is magnified! Doing this makes it hard [...]
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By John Bubriski on October 18, 2010
So recently I’ve created a couple useful code snippets, and here they are for you to download! Download My Code Snippets To use them, just place them in your custom code snippets directory, which will be something like: C:\Users\{username}\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Code Snippets Here are the snippets that are included in the zip file download: C# [...]
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By John Bubriski on July 18, 2010
Kentico has an email template feature that is used in many areas of the CMS. When a user registers, posts to the forum, or places an order in the E-Commerce system, they are sent an email from a predefined template that has been filled with their information. I’ll show you how easy it is to leverage this feature in your own code.
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By John Bubriski on July 16, 2010
A coworker of mine had a BizForm in Kentico that needed a dynamic URL Redirection after the form was submitted. Based on the page with the BizForm, the user would be redirected to a different thank you page. There are many reasons you could want dynamic thank you pages for a single form. For starters, it’s a lot easier to manage one set of data. Then there are the SEO benefits of having separate thank you pages. Don’t forget you might simply want different content, or another page/template entirely!
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By John Bubriski on July 8, 2010
Two weeks ago I was developing some custom functionality for Kentico CMS. I realized that my custom code had a lot of configurable settings (configuration settings). In the past, we’ve used the appSettings section of the web.config, but I’ve never liked it. Mainly, the appSettings section is unmanageable by non-technical users, although there are other reasons. So I decided to develop a custom module to store custom configuration settings right inside Kentico!
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By John Bubriski on June 24, 2010
A Forum Group in Kentico is the outer forum entity, and the Forums inside that Forum Group are the different areas where people actually post threads. It is a standard online forum configuration. Forum Groups can be stand alone, or belong to a Community Group. Using the API, we can create Forum Groups and Forums programmatically.
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By John Bubriski on June 23, 2010
While the community features of Kentico are good, there are some things that are lacking, one of which is a default group setup. So when an end user goes to your site and creates their own group, they have to manually create a Media Library. Our customer wanted the group to be fully configured upon creation, so I added some code to the group registration web part in order to do so.
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By John Bubriski on May 27, 2009
So I decided to try and use this as a storage mechanism for my snippets of code. Here is the first one! How to uninstall and reinstall ASP.NET! You might need to do this if you start having issues with ASP.NET. C:>cd windowsMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727 C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727>aspnet_regiis -u Start uninstalling ASP.NET (2.0.50727). ……………………………. Finished uninstalling ASP.NET (2.0.50727). C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727>aspnet_regiis [...]
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