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...