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Sitefinity 8.0 has arrived at Falafel.com
Telerik recently released Sitefinity 8.0, adding a whole lot of great features to the already powerful CMS. We were so excited for Sitefinity 8.0 that the same day it came out, we offered classes on...
View ArticleSitefinity Custom PageInboundPipe
Sitefinity search is very handy which is powered by Lucene. It indexes the pages content by rendering them in-memory – creates index named folder with files in App_Data\Sitefinity\Search. I recently...
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Falafel Software and Mammoth Mountain named a 2014 Telerik Sitefinity Website...
Every year Telerik, a Progress Company, honors those websites that have gone above and beyond to create an innovative and unique web experience using the Telerik Sitefinity CMS. This year we are...
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Sitefinity Asynchronous Search with WebAPI
Overview Sitefinity CMS features a powerful internal Search Engine that allows your site visitors to search your content and find what they are looking for. The Search Engine is built on top of the...
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Storing Sitefinity Sites In Source Control
Issues with Content Management Systems and Source Control When developing a Sitefinity web site, you run into some challenges when it comes to properly storing your work in source control. Out of the...
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How to Upload Files to your Sitefinity Document Library Asynchronously
Sometimes, it is necessary for users of your site to be able to upload files to Document Libraries in an asynchronous manner. They could be creating user-generated content and require a space to...
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Retrieving Simple Custom Properties from Sitefinity Content Items
Sitefinity offers many extension points to its core content types, as well as letting you create completely customized content types of your own via the Module Builder. You can add custom fields to...
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Quick Links to Sitefinity Resources
Whether you’re setting up your very first Sitefinity website or upgrading to the latest version, at some point you’re probably going to need to hunt down one or more of these items. Hopefully this post...
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Real-Time Visitor Count in Sitefinity with SignalR
In the previous post we looked at how to install and use SignalR in Sitefinity with a really simple popup notification sample. This time we’ll look at how we can leverage SignalR to create a real-time...
View ArticleFalafel Software Furthers Commitment to Sitefinity Developers with New...
CAPITOLA, CA – July 15, 2014 – Falafel Software, the leading provider of software development, consultation and training services has released a new software development kit for Sitefinity. The...
View ArticleProgrammatically add fields to Pages module in Sitefinity 6.3 and 7
Sitefinity 7 comes with a very cool new feature that enables us to add custom fields to Pages module through UI. Although this feature was previously not available in version 6.3, but its effect could...
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Installing Sitefinity Thunder into Visual Studio 2015
If you have tried to install Sitefinity Thunder (v 1.5.0.1) from the Nuget package manager inside of Visual Studio 2015, you might have gotten the error below that “the extension is not supported on...
View ArticleComplex Custom Properties for Sitefinity Content
In my previous post I talked about basic access of custom properties in Sitefinity. Namely, strings and numbers. Those alone cover a lot of what you’d use when it comes to custom fields on built-in...
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Relating Data in Sitefinity Content
In my previous post discussing properties on custom content, I delved into some of the more complex types that can be properties, including classifications and related media. This post will get into...
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Working with Hybrid Forms in Sitefinity Widgets
Throughout the course of web development, you often find yourself in a situation where you need data input from your user. Scenarios range from a simple contact form, to something as complex as a...
View ArticleCustomizing Search Result URLs in Sitefinity
One of Sitefinity’s many features is its search capabilities. Using Lucene under the hood, Sitefinity indexes your site content, both built-in content types and dynamic content types, along with static...
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Sitefinity Status Page HTTP Response Codes
When working with the new Web Services module or WCF services in Sitefinity, you want to be able to allow the requesting clients to properly respond to and handle a failed request. This is generally...
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Accessing Sitefinity Roles in Code
When developing custom solutions in your Sitefinity application, you may need the ability to work with Sitefinity roles. As a developer, you would reach out to the RoleManager that Sitefinity provides,...
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Using HandleUnknownAction in MVC Widgets
Sitefinity’s MVC widgets are fantastic. They allow untold amounts of customization and enable you to create an MVC framework as complex or as simple as you need. There is a caveat to using them,...
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Locks in Sitefinity: Keeping Content Free
Exclusive locks are nothing new. It is a basic concept that tons of multi-user programs, tools, and systems use so that users don’t step on each other’s toes when they’re trying to work on something....
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