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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]