Tag: Umbraco Tutorial

Don’t make the same mistake as I did when creating a custom Umbraco macro parameter type

In this blog post I will share with you some advice and a code example of a custom Umbraco macro parameter I built for a client Umbraco package.

This needed to be able to exclude document types, but the list shown to them needed to be filtered to begin with. By hiding document types that have no templates and by also excluding a predetermined list of document types such as configuration folders etc…

So read on to find out how I achieved it with some help of my colleague Anthony Dang to help debug an issue with it, which I will discuss later on.

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Umbraco MVC: What on earth is a surface controller?

Continuing the Umbraco MVC blog post series we will look at Surface controllers in this post and find out what the heck they are why they are so important when building Umbraco MVC websites.

Read on to find out how to implement your very own surface controllers.

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