When you try to add Font Awesome icons to the rich text editor in Umbraco, you notice that the icons getting removed from the editor, even editing HTML source, do not help to show Font Awesome icons.
The reason for this unexpected behavior is withi…
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When you work with Umbraco 8, you want the same style for all your URLs. In some cases, you want them ends with the trailing slash, like this: https://www.yaplex.com/blog/, and that is a default Umbraco 8 behavior.
In some cases, you prefer no slash, like this: https://yaplex.com/blog, and in this c…
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When building an Outlook plugin, I need a way to communicate between windows. The way Microsoft provides is to use Office messaging API. On your host you need to open a dialog and subscribe to dialog evens the following way:
Office.context.ui.displayDialogAsync(fullUrl,
{
height: 60,
…
When you develop a new website using Umbraco, you may notice that the 404 page is intentionally left ugly and you need to make sure it does have some lovely template.
It is possible and straightforward to create a great 404 page in Umbraco using just Umbraco CMS. It means that you do not need any w…
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Over the years or work as a .NET software developer, I noticed that I use the same IIS rewrite rules over and over again on different projects to solve the same business problems. Below I share examples of most useful IIS rewrite rules which I use.
Technically …
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In this video, I will show how to secure your contact form with Google reCapture v3 on ASP.NET MVC.
The video shows step by step guide of
This …
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In this video, I showed how to install Umbraco on local IIS. The video may be helpful to developers just starting with Umbraco and want to play with it on the local machine.
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In this video I giving a quick overview what is Umbraco and why you may want to use it. The video may be helpful for absolute beginners who never worked with Umbraco or any other CMS systems.
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In the video below I'm sharing a quick productivity tip for somebody who is using Todoist and Outlook. I show how to quickly add a new task in Todoist application from Outlook just by single click.
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A couple of years ago I compared an Orchard CMS with Wordpress, and while Wordpress is powering most of the Internet sites, I decided to choose Orchard for my projects. (Read why)
Orchard CMS is a good content management system, which allows you to work with website content easily, it does not usual…
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Yaplex is a custom software development company co-founded by full-stack .NET Software developer Alex Shapovalov who lives in Mississauga, ON and provides software development services in Mississauga and GTA.