A question that often shows up in the newsgroup is the fact that in some situations links that MCMS should treat as internal managed links are saved as unmanaged external links. The problem with unmanaged external links is that in case you move the destination posting to a different location the link will no longer […]
One of the most requested missing features for the famous MCMS Manager was the fact that it lacked the possibility to use it against a remote machine. It was required to run it on the MCMS server machine itself – so at least Remote Desktop access was required. This beta version now fills this gap! […]
In my previous article I have discussed how to implement site navigation for an MCMS site using ASP.NET 2.0 navigation controls. I have also discussed glitches with such navigation controls when switching between authoring and presenation mode. Today I will discuss how to create a page summary list as it is usually added to a […]
ASP.NET 2.0 ships with many new composite controls to make developing a web site very easy. I have covered a couple of controls related to site navigation including development a custom SiteMapProvider in my previous article. Today we will cover controls related to role membership. As MCMS has it’s own role system which cannot be […]
Spence has published a nice article discussing the pro’s and con’s of process recycling and how to balance the different recommendations for MCMS and SharePoint and the Connector for SharePoint Technologies: http://www.mcmsfaq.com/2005/08/mcms-apppool-recycling-spark-and.asp
Andy has discussed a nice solution to allow sorting of an ArrayLists of Postings on all Posting properties: http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/andyb/archive/2005/08/02/131690.aspx
In my previous article I explained what to do to get a read-only MCMS website working on ASP.NET 2.0. In this article I will go one step further and explain how to get a read-write MCMS website working with ASP.NET 2.0! First of all you need to ensure that all steps in my previous article […]
Today I have seen another performance problem caused by Site Deployment API. Here Site Deployment was implemented as a Web application. This causes the Site Deployment API to be loaded into the worker process of the application. So far so good. The problem is that Site Deployment requires a significant amount of memory to be […]
[via Mei Ying] Authors often ask for a list of postings that link to a particular posting/channel before deleting or moving it. Here’s a sample that I’ve written to help address this. It’s a simple console application that scans all placeholder content for hyperlink. Read more…
Part 3 – How to identify 3rd party products using undocumented program internal intefaces I have discussed problems when using undocumented program internal interfaces and how they affect support in Part 1 and Part 2 of this article. Now lets focus on 3rd party products as these might consume such interfaces which would also impact your […]
Part 2 – What would YOU do? Lets assume you have developed a nice application – lets say a Web Application that uses a backend database. To allow your users to customize the application you have implemented an API that customers can use to savely program against the application. Unfortunatelly due to time constraints you did […]
Part 1 – Technical Background I assume you often heard the statement: “Don’t use undocumented API calls”. And you might often have thought: “Why not? There are so powerful features under the surface of the documented API! I want to use them!”. This article should give you some ideas what could happen when undocumented API […]
