Inproper use of the MCMS publishing API can cause significant performance problems in MCMS. A good summary of things to avoid and to do is listed in Chesters article. Beside the hints in Chesters article here are some less good known facts you need to be aware of: 1) Do not use the HtmlPlaceholder.Text property […]

The SingleImagePlaceholderControl and SingleAttachmentPlaceholderControl have a small bug: they render a link to an image named transparent.jpg in the current directory. As this is only a cosmetic bug that causes 404 errors in the IIS log this bug will not be fixed in a hotfix. As this is still an anoying problem for some users […]

A couple of weeks ago someone asked the question on the public newsgroup on how to verify a given posting name using regular expressions. Here is a solution for this problem: public bool CheckName(string name) {     // test for other characters as the ones in the list     Regex regEx1 = new Regex(@”[^A-Z0-9 _\-().]”, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);     // test for double ‘.’     Regex regEx2 = new Regex(@”\.{2}”, RegexOptions.None);     // test for ‘.’ at the end     Regex regEx3 = new Regex(@”[\.]$”, RegexOptions.None);         string Name = txtName.Text.Trim();     Match match1 = regEx1.Match(Name);     Match match2 = regEx2.Match(Name);     Match match3 = regEx3.Match(Name);     // valid = no invalid chars, no double dot, no dot at the end     bool valid = !match1.Success && !match2.Success && !match3.Success;      return valid;}

David Wang provided a nice article on diagnosing 401 errors. This article is also very useful to analyze MCMS problems when guest access does not work even if the guest account is correctly configured in MCMS. HOWTO Diagnose IIS 401 Access Denied

Themes are a very nice feature in ASP.NET 2.0 to allow personalization and customization of a site very easily. Even without recompile an web administrator would be able to change the look and feel of a site completly by just changing the theme in the web.config (e.g.). So it would be great if you could […]

When switching from published mode to edit mode using a template that holds the ASP.NET 2.0 navigation controls using the MCMS Site Map Provider will show an unwanted behaviour: the navigation controls will continue to show the published mode URLs. This is being caused by the fact that these controls buffer the information in viewstate. […]

I have done a new update of the MCMS FAQ today. [Online html version] [Offline CHM version]

[via CMSWire and Andrew Connell] Packt Publishing hit a home run with the last Microsoft CMS (MCMS) book, Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server. The same team of star authors is now working on the next one, entitled Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development…. The last bit of the article states: There’s also a dash of […]