Dennis articles - 35 total
How to test Umbraco against a real database
In my last post about Test Driven Development, I briefly touched on testing with a real database and...
Learning TDD by doing: Umbraco & EF Core
Remember: 🔴 Red, 🟢 Green, ♻️ Refactor Umbraco has support for EF Core since Umbraco 12. EF Core is...
Driving Umbraco's dictionary to the edge (of your system)
Umbraco's translations section allows you to define reusable pieces of flat text. It's an easy way to...
Learning TDD by doing: Dealing with Umbraco's published content
Remember: 🔴 red, 🟢 green, ♻️ refactor One of the things that Dave Farley says is that you should...
Learning TDD by doing: Tagging members in Umbraco's Rich Text Editor
In the system that I'm building, I need the ability to mention Umbraco members in text in the...
Learning TDD by doing: Business hours
Remember: 🔴 red, 🟢 green, ♻️ refactor I'm maintaining a website with a feature to display the...
Learning TDD by doing: An SPA content finder for Umbraco
Remember: 🔴 red, 🟢 green, ♻️ refactor For a project that I'm working on, I wanted to support an...
I'm learning TDD with dotnet, follow along and let's learn together
A property of high-quality code is that it is easy to change Since a few months, I've been...
How to skip login screens during development for Umbraco 13 Users and Members
When you do development in Umbraco, it's kind of annoying to have to log in on your local development...
Tips when upgrading Umbraco from 10 to 13
I recently upgraded a website from Umbraco 10 to 13. In this post I present a list of things that you...
URL Tracker DevLog #4: The first alpha version of the new URL Tracker is out! 🎉
So it finally happened. The first alpha version of the new URL Tracker is now available for Umbraco...
How to register internal controllers in Umbraco 13+
In this short tutorial, I will show you how to register a controller from a package that is marked as...
Improving application resilience with Channels
In this blog I'm going to briefly explore the Channel object in dotnet. I'll give a short...
Good practices for dealing with errors in web applications (in dotnet)
I've recently been helping out with a support request from a client and it prompted me to write about...
Umbraco in control: Exploring service consumption in context
In the previous posts, I explored how I can use Umbraco content to configure which service my...
Umbraco in control: Exploring user-managed service composition
Earlier, I wrote about controlling the consumption of services using Umbraco content. In that post, I...
Umbraco in control: exploring user-managed execution paths
This week I've been thinking about some solutions that I've developed recently and the challenges...
Integration testing in Umbraco 10+: Validating document types
This post builds further on all the things I discussed in the previous topics in this series. If...
Umbraco's forgotten child: Segmentation in Umbraco 10+
Did you know that Umbraco allows you to vary your content by more than just language? You may have...
URL Tracker DevLog #3: A durable frontend
It's been a while since the last URL Tracker devlog. The frontend of the URL Tracker has been...
Umbraco MVP and my first time at Code Garden!
Code Garden is Umbraco's largest community gathering, held annually near Umbraco HQ in Odense. Code...
An alternative approach to error pages in Umbraco 10+
A nice error page could turn an otherwise unpleasant user experience into something better, it might...
How to secure your Umbraco api controller with an api key
Setting up an api endpoint in Umbraco 10 and above is incredibly easy: Create a class, inherit from...
Refining content editing experiences in Umbraco with a user-focused approach
Umbraco: the friendly CMS. Or is it? Umbraco's intuitive interface, its support and it's friendly...
My mistake taught me about international standards
Did you know that there is a standard for csv files? The standard is RFC 4180. I didn't know until...
5 things your Umbraco package source needs
One of the major features of Umbraco is the rich package marketplace. At the time of writing, Umbraco...
I made inline styles CSP-compliant in .NET 6+. Here's how
When it comes to web security, having a good content security policy (CSP) is the most effective way...
Design patterns in Umbraco | Decorator
If you are new to design patterns, I recommend you to read part 1 of this series before diving into...
Code with intent!
Now that Umbraco has moved to .NET 6 and up, I've been reviewing more pull requests from my coworkers...
URL Tracker DevLog #2: Designing the backend
The backend has had a fair amount of rework already, but I'm not done yet. The new design also comes...