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How to install a Visual Studio 2022 extension that hasn't been updated to support Visual Studio 2022 ARM yet.

How to setup and run Sitefinity on an M series ARM Apple Silicon mac

If your custom widget exists more than once on a page, and you want to expose a JsonResult or HttpPost ActionResult, here's how to you target a specific controller so the saved Public Properties are correct.

I wrested with the Sitefinity timezone conversion through the OData API so you don't have to.

Helper to query the sitefinity database for a Controllers saved properties on a page. Useful for querying through an ajax callback.

Sitefinity allows linking to the root element in the backend Advanced Configuration, but have you had it not work? I think I might know why...

Trying to accept an invite link when connected to xCloud on a PC keeps throwing a ms-xbl-multiplayer error, here's how to get it to work.

Quickly pull in who has custom access to Sitefinity page permissions through this handy SQL Stored Procedure!

How to add class names to your HTML when your custom Sitefinity Widgets exist on the page.

How to write your own function for a KendoUI Spreadsheet cell, the documentation is a bit all over the place on the how to set it up.

Telerik Reporting was removed from Sitefinity, if you need printable PDF business reports, here's how you can easily get them back.

Tips on how to use VueJs with Sitefinity and not have every widget all webpacked and loaded on every page.

Sometimes I don't want an Async upload before a form submission, I want to submit the results of a file through a regular form element postback, here's a quick way to do that.

When you click a protected file in Sitefinity it sends you to the login page, but after login the user is left looking at a blank page, here's how to resolve that.

How to configure Sitefinity to allow authenticated users to anonymously submit a Sitefinity Form.

Here's how you can add meta description or opengraph properties to your dynamically created Sitefinity page routes in your custom widget controllers.

Sitefinity generates it's sitemap to a .gz file which Google\Bing can read, but I can't. Here's how you can dump a readable version.

Oh no! I have a Custom Sitefinity Widget with ActionResult routes but every attempt to use them throws a 404.

Blocking requests like bottraffic.live or trafficbot.life from triggering on your site. These requests come in the thousands and jack up your Google Analytics.

Sitefinity can run code in the background through scheduled tasks or cronjobs. Here's a complete sample created using the idea of a mail system to flush out messages, it's pretty easy.

Sitefinity 13.2 introduces a way to validate signing certificates, however the error message and docs are weak on details, here's what it means and how to fix.

Populating a Sitefinity Form Dropdown with Data from an API couldn't be more simple with Javascript, here's how you can accomplish it.

Excluding pages\routes from netlify-plugin-sitemap

How to figure out which Tailwindcss responsive breakpoint you're currently on

How to configure Sitefinity for SAML2 (SAML 2.0) SSO authentication

How to dynamically navigate content from List to Detail without hardcoding routes.

How do I swap out (depreciate) a sitefinity page so it can be replaced with a new one.

Why am I downloading an old file from Sitefinity even though it's content has changed

There's lots of confusion about the schema syntax to generate an in-app link which will open the Facebook app right to someones profile. Here's what works, and what doesn't.

Add some no-work polish to your custom Sitefinity Widgets

How to find out which provider someone used to log in

Fixing duplicate content pops in Sitefinity, no more urlname issues. This will load and run a custom backend content view script to update the fields on the clientside.

Sitefinity page designer loads in Angular, so here's now to have your Angular widget not conflict with that!

If your users log in with a social account, they also then need a way to log OUT of that social account as well right?

If you think Sitefinity loads slow, you should update to a version using the new Microsoft Roslyn Compiler, or just hack it into your current version.

Sitefinity doesn't natively allow for forms to popup in a modal window, but it's not that complex, here's how!

Identifying problems in the Sitefinity page editor

Don't forget to disable Sitefinity Warmup Plugins to get the most of the 10.1 dev speed improvements.

Remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure. Sitefinity 10 introduced a new login system based on Identity Server 3 and now logging into the backend might throw certificate errors.

Add a bootstrap dropdown navigation template to Sitefinity

How to prevent your Sitefinity content editors from pasting in bad content into the KendoUI Editor widget from MSWord, or content full of inline styling.

Modifying the AND\OR logic combining sitefinity taxa

How to change the way RadEditor\Kendo WYSIWYG editors display their related content.

How to edit the generic column form names in Sitefinity Feather MVC, it's a bit hidden now.

Good way to add size specific selectors to your nativescript css

When you're doing a migration from Hybrid to Pure MVC it's hard to know which widgets need to change, here's a quick trick!

Sitefinitys Ldap implementation aggressively caches every ldap query, which is good (really), however there's a massive hole in the implementation, heres how to fix it.

Here's a quick way you can hide content from being Indexed by Sitefinity Lucene search.

Specifying a resource package for Sitefinity Feather in hybrid mode

Quick way to write javascript on your sitefinity site without generating a ton of page or template versions.

If a document is protected and the anonymous user is sent to the login page, once they login they aren't sent to the document. Here's the fix to send them over to avoid frustration.

Sitefinity 7.1 introduces a new module system that generates widgets for each type, and those widgets can now react to each other based on the page route, here's now to move yourself over from previous versions.

Export Html to Pdf with Sitefinity at no additional cost

Use a Sitefinity MVC Widget on your Webforms templates without needing to drag\drop.

Here's the missing KendoUI MVVM Sortable widget demo you've always wanted!

Customize Sitefinity Layout Controls in the Page Designer

Adding objects to the Sitefinity Cache using the CacheManager

Sitefinity's new menu doesn't seamlessly render when the page loads, it pops into place, here's the fix.

Sitefinity 5.4 introduced precompiled templates, this is how it all works.

Sitefinity Layouts are amazingly flexible...stop writing your own CSS and use these.

Sitefinitys default Hierarchical DynamicContent control has no Url flexability...here's how we can fix all that so we have nicer routing.

How to leverage the ViewMap to filter by custom taxonomies in the designer

Ever wondered how Sitefinity is managing it's openaccess content? Wonder what the best practices are for using the Managers?...Ivan and Radoslav explain it all!

Disable the RadControls embedded jQuery in Sitefinity

Modify the Sitefinity Breadcrumb control to be more lean and efficient.

Here's a quick trick to get IIS on your local dev box to load up Sitefinity faster!

Extend your sitefinity Taxa with custom attributes

Have you just deployed your Sitefinity site to live and you get a YSOD of System.Data.SQLite? Here's likely the quick fix for the issue!

Make your forms look and work super cool with KendoUI

Format javascript date objects to string formats using KendoUI...you're using it ANYWAY right?

It's sometimes hard to debug a javascript template, but with kendo templates being plain script tags, it's actually really easy!

If you're getting a YSOD crash page due to a C# assembly version mismatch, this quick config change will fix you right up!

Here's how you can address getting a Validation of viewstate MAC error screen in Sitefinity

KendoUI is embedded in Sitefinity, here's how to use it.

Sitefinity pre v8 uses WCF services, this is a simple tutorial on crafting your own services through their layer.

Windows Workflow Foundation files are XAMLX and sometimes your breakpoint just don't get hit, perhaps give this a try.

Have you ever wanted to change the look or feel of the Sitefinity Page Editor itself for your users? It's easily doable, here's how.

Disabling the L2 Cache to fix the Row not found: GenericOID Errors, and Events not saving in Sitefinity

Quick two steps to change which class every page inherits from

Cufon is a cool tool, this should get you up and running with Cufon+RadControls

This post will outline how to easily (re: no code) bind nested repeaters with telerik OpenAccess.

NeedsDataSource is a nice way to populate a report, but I always have trouble remembering which Type to cast to for the "object sender" variable. So here's an exampling of Binding to OpenAccess to flatten the data out for the report.

ELMAH: Error Logging Modules and Handlers for ASP.NET is a pretty awesome error logger. I've installed it on a couple sitefinity instances so I figured I'd blog about it to help some others with it.

The amount of controls available on the toolbar is super minimal compaired to what is actually available to the RadEditor. Luckily as always Telerik has make it super easy to expand.

Shows you how to have sitefinity 3.x generate a UI for you to pick content

Hyperlinks in External Templates with Sitefinity 3.x

Get Bookmarks from your WF4 database with this handy Stored Procedure

Did you know just by having the Telerik.Web.UI in your project you have jQuery available?

Getting Sitefinity 3.x up and running on windows 7 64

One of the major issues with querying a webservice with the non-domain model approach to OpenAccess was that if you tried to return a list of objects directly you can't dispose of your scope

In sitefinity 3.x there are zero telerik skins which look normal in the backend, however it's super easy to skin them so they conform to the style and look native.

Modifying your controls with a new external template in Sitefinity 3.x

How to query your OpenAccess domain models with LinqPad...yes, it IS possible!

One of the reasons your page might be taking too long to load is the images are too large or not optimized for web; check this out.

The way sitefinity 3.x positions the edit containers in design mode sometimes doesn't look 100% like the page.

How to wire up a report download to a button click with Telerik Reporting

IE hates CSS, a lot, clearly as a developer you are very aware of this. But moreover it hates CSS3, lets just say it hates progress. Here's a fix...

How to build once and end up with multiple assemblies target at many sitefinity versions

How to move the Sitefinity Community (mandatory) logo

Sometimes you just want the plain text from your HTML. If you already have the RadEditor installed, it can strip your HTML for you!

Asp.net packages resources into these massive AXD cachebusted bundled requests, but they are an absolute nightmare to look though.

Here's how you can Extend the Telerik OpenAccess context to improve your development API.

Best way to leverage scripts and styles widgets while keeping the design clean

Watching your page render html, then having it just pop into becoming a javascript widget is really jank for your users, lets fix that.

Tutorial on using the RadXmlHttpPanel to send asyc data

How to use CSS Gradients in multiple browsers. The problem is when the spec isn't supported you need to use vendor prefixes.

How to use no code to keep things properly sized in sitefinity 4

A good stored procedure to do a full text search on the Sitefinity database

This post will show you how to dynamically show images for a blog post if the content exists.