Umbraco is a fairly mature CMS system and recently I was engaged in an assignment to deploy Umbraco CMS to Windows Azure. In this post, I’ll share some of my learning’s. Umbraco accelerator (I call it bootstrapper) works well for small...

One of my colleagues recently asked me to look into connecting to a SharePoint site running on Office 365 from a Windows Phone 7 application. Now this is something that the phone has native support for but in this case he wanted to be able to build an...

I was with a customer in Germany this week, and just before I left one of the (rather talented I might say) developers asked me about passing markup into an HtmlHelper extension. It turns out this is pretty easy, as covered by Phil Haack under Templated...

If you’ve not read my MSDN magazine article on using WebGrid to render tabular data then go read it now: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/stuartleeks/archive/2011/07/03/get-the-most-out-of-webgrid-in-asp-net-mvc.aspx ! This post announces the NuGet package...

HTML5 is the latest buzzword in the web industry, if you’re not developing a HTML5 application then clearly you’re trapped in the era of the scrolling <marquee> and should be cast into the eternal fires of the <blink> tag. Well...

Data expiration contains elements that make the cache allocation more efficient. The feature removes items that are not current from the cache, freeing the memory and the resources associated. Capability Description ...

A notification system allows the cache to interact with external applications. This attribute can be useful on scenarios where certain activities, for example workflows, need to know the state of an item. Capability Description...

Notification & “Duplex communication” are important scenario over the internet but firewalls and browser limitations makes them very hard to implement. In the browser world, tricks like long polling is commonly used to implement server...

What? My colleague Simon and I have each written conditional validators with a number of customers, and Simon has blogged about it a number of times . I’ve had another idea in this space that I’ve been meaning to post for a while. Simon’s...

My blog posts on doing conditional validation in MVC have always been popular, and I’m frequently surprised by where I find that code – customers often say to me “we found some guys blog with some code to do the validation we needed”...