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When the
MVP award was first announced, it was amazing to see the fantastic community response. It makes the award a tough decision given all the great things that I see in the .NET and Kentico CMS community on a daily basis.
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8/19/2010 9:37:20 AM by
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The UserInfo object is used to access the security objects within the Kentico API. As an example lets create a user programmatically using an ASPX page.
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8/18/2010 4:02:38 PM by
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Page templates are an important part of any site implementation. How are they created is one of the questiosn that I often hear. In order to understand this more I put together a quick video that covers using the ASPX or Kentico Portal Engine to create your page templates.
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8/4/2010 1:51:22 PM by
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Thanks to everyone that contributed to the July issue
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7/29/2010 3:01:04 PM by
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How often do you open the Kentico CMS Web project in a day? Its a bit time consuming having to open Visual Studio and find the project. If you open a couple of other projects then it falls of the recent project lists which costs even more time. In this blog post we will look at a way you can use pinning within Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2010 to make opening the Kentico CMS project easier.
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7/19/2010 9:31:05 PM by
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Thanks to everyone that contributed to the June issue
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6/30/2010 11:46:06 AM by
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I really like the use of Regions within my code. They are a great way to organize and collapse section of code. Working with a large project like Kentico its a great way to organize and collapse code. Within Visual 2010, I found a new feature called ad-hoc regions that has been a big help to me. In this blog post we will cover how to use this feature within your code.
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6/23/2010 6:49:42 PM by
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Wow – there is a lot of things happening here at Kentico - the release of
Kentico CMS 5.5 and
Content Administrator and Developer Training to name a few. Today, I am pleased to announce the release of the Kentico Certified Developer Exam. In this blog post I wanted to provide an overview of the certification exam and provide some details around the program.
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6/18/2010 11:05:03 AM by
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Windows Vista introduced a new UI feature called Windows Gadgets. Fundamentally, a Gadget is a small, lightweight application that runs in a special pane called the Sidebar or directly on a users desktop. In this series of blog posts we will build a widget that connects with Kentico data. In this part of the series we will introduce gadget development and build a very simple gadget. Well start by creating a barebones gadget that we can use as a template for other gadgets we will build over the series of articles.
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6/17/2010 4:13:03 PM by
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Like any real world project the Kentico CMS project is a big, often contains multi-projects, lots of files, and classes. Many times when working within the project I need find definitions quickly without searching. In this blog post we will look at using F12 to quickly find the definition.
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6/14/2010 12:34:43 PM by
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Many times when coding I need to quickly find text within the current document. I ran across a feature in Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 called incremental search that solve this. In this blog post we will look at how we can use incremental search.
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6/3/2010 5:53:28 PM by
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Thanks to everyone that contributed to the May issue
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5/26/2010 5:28:24 PM by
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Combing a custom document, workflow and Twitter provides a powerful set of features that can be used within a Kentico site. This combination allows for the creation of a custom solution that allows you to use Kentico directly as your Twitter posting engine and provide content administrators the ability to control and workflow enable twitter posts. In this post I will create a custom document that is placed under workflow and then extend the global event handler to post a tweet once the document is approved.
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5/20/2010 10:56:19 AM by
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Thanks to everyone that attended yesterdays’ session presented by
Good Medium
SharePoint 2010 release is just around the corner. There is a lot of talk about SharePoint’s new capabilities, especially those relating to web content management. A lot of organizations are wondering if they could possibly use SharePoint 2010 as the technology stack to maintain both their enterprise collaboration needs and their corporate website.
In this webinar, we will review the new SharePoint web content management capabilities and see if SharePoint fits your organization’s strategic website objectives at this time.
Topics that we will cover in the webinar include -
- Review SharePoint's Existing & New Capabilities
- Review some of the strategic website objectives for organizations
- Compare how SharePoint & industry leading CMS platforms deliver on the strategic website objectives
- Preparing For SharePoint 2010
- Recommendations
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5/19/2010 1:33:56 PM by
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Like most people once I finish a blog post, the next step is
to send out a tweet. Seemed like a lot of work and something that should be
automated. In this post I will show how you can automate the process of sending
a tweet whenever a new blog post is added. Next, I am planning on cleaning the
code up a bit and wrapping it within a module. If youre interested in helping
with the sample let me know. I am thinking if we get enough people interested
we can create a CodePlex project.
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5/12/2010 12:44:39 PM by
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Thanks to everyone that attended today's Kentico Technical Learning - What's new with Kentico CMS 5.5.
Wondering what’s new with the upcoming release of Kentico 5.5? It’s a lengthy list of features that includes .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 support, mobile support, Facebook and open ID integration and many more.
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5/11/2010 3:57:09 PM by
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As we complete the training rollout for Developers and Content Administrators I am happy to announce that we are preparing for the next phase, the release of the Kentico Certified Developer Exam. In this post I wanted to provide a general overview of the beta exam process and an opportunity for those interested to sign up for consideration as an exam beta tester.
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5/11/2010 1:52:10 PM by
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Thanks to everyone for their input into the April edition. Make sure to subscribe from the main page of devnet on the right.
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4/29/2010 9:50:23 AM by
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Ever have a block of code that you need to make a changes to? It gets a bit tiring changing each line with the keyboard. I ran across a cool feature of Visual Studio 2010 that helps to solve this.
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4/27/2010 5:15:23 PM by
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In
Tutorial 2 we covered the ways you can edit CSS using the Kentico CMS Web user interface. We also looked at one of the basic CSS properties - color and how it can be used within your site. In this tutorial we will look at using CSS pseudo-classes and how it can be used to change the look and feel of HTML tags.
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4/26/2010 5:17:30 PM by
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