Today a newsgroup post reminded me that I did not yet publish the necessary changes for my Http Module that corrects the Ugly MCMS URLs caused by ASP.NET postbacks when ASP.NET 2.0 master pages are used. The HttpModule I published earlier does not work in this scenario as it relies on the fact that a […]
From time to time I receive questions related to problems when using a web application to perform site deployment import or export operations – e.g. from within a web page or though a web service. Running Site Deployment from within a web application sounds like a nice idea as it allows to use server side SDAPI locally on […]
A sample chapter of our new book Enhancing MCMS with ASP.NET 2.0 is now available for download: Download Chapter 3: Using Master Pages
Through a blog from Andrew I just found a nice review of our Advanced MCMS book on DotNetSlackers.com: » Book Review: Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development
Some post SP2 hotfixes install an old version of the nrdhtml.cab file The installer of the affected hotfixes contains a problem that causes the nrdhtml.cab file to be replaced with an old version (version 5.0.4526.0). This can cause performance problems during authoring as the cab file is downloaded for every placeholder control again and again. […]
Looking at the first MCMS book (Building websites using MCMS) we received one 4-star review and four 5-star reviews on Amazon. Read the reviews here. And I just saw that our second MCMS book (Advanced MCMS development) got three 5-star reviews on Amazon. Read the reviews here. And our 3rd book focusing on integrating MCMS with […]
As some of you might already heard of: Lim Mei Ying (MCMS MVP), Spencer Harber (MCMS MVP) and myself are currently working on a book that covers enhancing MCMS websites using ASP.NET 2.0 features. It will deal with all the glitches of properly installing MCMS with VS.NET 2005 and SQL 2005, known issues and for […]
As I dicussed earlier MCMS is not supported with Team Foundation Server. The reason is that the developer tools shipped with MCMS are incompatible with Team Foundation Server and raise an exception when items are checked in. This might be a significant design limitation for customers, so I spent some time to identify a workaround […]
Although not officially supported, MCMS 2002 SP2 works fine with Web Parts as I outlined earlier. A couple of weeks ago Ali Mazaheri, a collegue from Microsoft Consulting Services contacted me to get some tips as he had to create a proof of concept for using ASP.NET Web Parts on MCMS template files. The requirements were […]
Ryan Donovan has posted a nice article with an explanation on the future of Commerce Server 2006 Integration with MCMS: http://blogs.msdn.com/rdonovan/archive/2006/03/03/543073.aspx
I have posted a solution for this problem in a subsection of this article but someone who is just looking on how to get AJAX working in general might not find it easily. The probem with AJAX is that the client does a silent postback from Javascript using the Microsoft.XMLHTTP COM object. This technique is […]
Microsoft had to modify the behavior of ActiveX controls due to an existing patent from Eolas on this technology. See here for more details on this. After the change ActiveX controls embedded in the html code of a web page have to be activated manually by a user – e.g. through a click on the […]
