Posts in: Sitefinity

  • Sitefinity 4 Navigation Control (Custom)

    August 28th, 2011

    Our web development team at Aptera Software care about their code. The standard Sitefinity 4 Navigation Control spits out a lot of unnecessary code – IDs (when you don’t need then), extra classes, div tags, a ton of JavaScript, view state padding, and useless hidden inputs. In Sitefinity 3.7, our team developed their own menu adapter to [...]

  • Sitefinity 4 Calendar Widget Released!

    August 28th, 2011

    I work for a software firm in Fort Wayne, IN. For the longest time, we used Sitefinity 3 as our standard content management solution. After awhile, we determined a few standard features that nearly all of our clients used. One of the biggies – the Events Calendar. Those of you that are passionate about Sitefinity [...]

  • Sitefinity 4: HtmlField, PageField, ImageSelector, and Multi View Designers

    May 22nd, 2011

    I’ve got a tasty treat for all of the Sitefinity 4 developers out there. I’ve expressed frustration about this before, but the Sitefinity 4 documentation is lacking greatly (in examples). So, what I’ve done is put together a few of my own examples. I’ve created basic custom controls that I know I’ll need to use [...]

  • Using .NET Reflector with Sitefinity 4

    May 18th, 2011

    One of my biggest gripes with the new version of Sitefinity is the amount of documentation that just doesn’t exist. Building a custom control in Sitefinity requires reading through the examples included on their website and in the SDK package. Unfortunately, the examples for custom controls are missing a lot of information – and the [...]

  • Sitefinity “Authorization Failed” during installation

    May 15th, 2011

    This is a pretty obnoxious error that usually happens when you are starting with a fresh install of SQL Server. When Selecting “SQL Server” as the database option during installation, you will be asked to enter the server, port, user, password, and database. Your first guess when receiving the “Authorization failed” error may be: I [...]