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Screencast on Umbraco v4 Masterpages

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Hello all I thought I would do a screencast on the new ASP.NET masterpages integration in the upcoming version of Umbraco, a free .NET opensource CMS.

These videos come about when the great guys and girls from Xeed who I work for asked me to document Umbraco for internal documentation. Instead of doing the normal boring written documentation approach I thought I would try my hand at doing a screencast to cover the same information instead.

So Xeed has let me release these videos to the Umbraco community as well as they will be useful to people new to Umbraco V4. Xeed As based in Oslo, Norway where I work with along with core team member Kenneth Solberg has recently become a company who specialises in Umbraco solutions as we now have 4 umbraco certifications within the company which makes us an official Certified Solution Provider for Umbraco.

These four certified people are as follows:
Warren Buckley/Me - Level 1 Umbraco Developer
Ståle Engen - Level 1 Umbraco Developer
Kennth Solberg - Level 2 Umbraco Developer
Christian Melbye - Level 2 Umbraco Devleoper

So thanks again to the guys and girls over at Xeed to let me release these videos with you all and finally I have never done a screencast before, so please go easy on me with your feedback please ;)

Warren

 

Vimeo Links

Masterpages in V4 of Umbraco - Part 1 of 3 on Vimeo.com
Masterpages in V4 of Umbraco - Part 2 of 3 on Vimeo.com
Masterpages in V4 of Umbraco - Part 3 of 3 on Vimeo.com

YouTube Links

Masterpages in V4 of Umbraco - Part 1 of 3 on YouTube.com
Masterpages in V4 of Umbraco - Part 2 of 3 on YouTube.com
Masterpages in V4 of Umbraco - Part 3 of 3 on YouTube.com

31 comments
Tim Geyssens
23rd September, 2008
Great stuff Warren ! Keep 'em coming ;)
Tim Gaunt
23rd September, 2008
Nice videos chap, I like it :)
Warren Buckley
23rd September, 2008
@Tim Gaunt haaa very 'British' comment there!

"Spiffing old chap, good show !"
Dirk
23rd September, 2008
Nice vids! Really enjoyed the English language... More of that please!
Warren Buckley
24th September, 2008
@Dirk glad you like the videos and my strange accent !!

Hopefully there will be more videos in the future, so watch this space.
Morten Bock Sørensen
26th September, 2008
Great walkthrough of the masterpage features, including the benefits of multiple contentplaceholders.
Soeren Sprogoe
1st October, 2008
Brilliant!

I love the idea of documenting stuff with screencasts. Keep 'em coming!
Ben
3rd October, 2008
Hi - Im looking for a certified umbraco developer to work on an integration project. I work for an agency and have a client with a CMS requirement. Are you available? Please call me back if you want to discuss. Cheers
Ben

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Barney
22nd October, 2008
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Al
10th November, 2008
Thanks Warren, that was very helpful!
Lyle McNeal
25th February, 2009
great vids. they are very helpful. just one question. it seems that the installation i'm using doesn't have neat little button for the child templates. can you post the skeleton/template for this code?
Lyle McNeal
25th February, 2009
After talking to Warren, and running through the demo once more I couldn't replicate my issue. My best guess is that I didn't save the child template before trying to associate it to the master template. One thing that I did notice that I didn't see in the video is that on the child template the Master directive is maintained.
Vikas
24th April, 2009
Very nice for the newbie
Steven
24th April, 2009
This helped me tremendously. Thank you for all your hard work and effort.
Hitesh
15th May, 2009
Thanks Warren Awesome Work.. but i think due to the new version 4.0.1, some of the videos may be outdated.....

I was going through your video 2 which explains Master pages and child templates, i was unable to get that working in my version of Umbraco which is 4.0.1, are there any differences in this and the version specified in the videos? Any suggestions of what could be cahnged to get it working?

My version of Umbraco has the below tag
when creating the Master Template, but yours did not have this


<%@ Master Language="C#" MasterPageFile="/umbraco/masterpages/default.master" AutoEventWireup="true" %>


Also there is no master page container button when modifying the homepage template

Also when i vi
ew the page in the browser after following all the steps, i get a Server Error as below

----------------------------------------------
Cannot find ContentPlaceHolder 'MasterPlaceHolder' in the master page '/masterpages/Master.master', verify content control's ContentPlaceHolderID attribute in the content page.
----------------------------------------------------

Warren Buckley
15th May, 2009
Hello Hitesh,
These videos were created before the final release of Umbraco V4. If I remember this was using a BETA version of Umbraco.

Yes in the beta version it removed this from the template view so dont panic about the <% master page stuff line now being added.

I see you have emailed me and will reply to that for more details.

Warren :)
Torben Nikolajsen
07th October, 2009
Tanks Warren.

Great help I got from Your video

/Torben
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05th January, 2010
Great video. Just wondering which tool you used to record the screencast.
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