Could not load file or assembly xxx or one of its dependencies

We hit the fairly common issue of not being able to resolve a dependency the other day and tried all the usual resolutions -checking that the version numbers across all projects match, check the…

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Can't register services with LightInject in Umbraco - The non-generic method 'Composition.Register(Type, Lifetime)' cannot be used with type arguments

We've generally used Autofac as our go to dependency injection container in Umbraco but we like to keep projects as lean as possible so wanted to start using LightInject for Umbraco V8 projects but…

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How To: Automatically set Umbraco folder permissions after AppVeyor deploy

We've been playing more with AppVeyor over the past few weeks to automate the deployment of our sites and one of the things we got caught out with was the Umbraco folder permissions which we do with…

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How To: Quickly Set Umbraco File and Folder Permissions with PowerShell

In 2010 I blogged about how to set Umbraco folder permissions using PowerShell. This has been a really handy snippet -but it's always been a bit of a pain when dealing with new servers, remembering…

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Group Newsletter Studio mailing lists by name in the Umbraco backend tree

In a follow-on from my previous post about how to Group Newsletter Studio newsletters by month in the Umbraco backend tree. This is a quick post to give you an idea of how to group the mailing lists…

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Group Newsletter Studio newsletters by month in the Umbraco backend tree

One of our customer's websites uses the Newsletter Studio Umbraco package to manage their mailing lists but had an issue because they send a lot of emails (40+ a month) so the draft/sent/archive…

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View the property values in SQL for latest version of a page in Umbraco

I've previously blogged about how to download any Umbraco document as a CSV from SQL but we hit a slightly different issue today and needed to view the values for a property in SQL. By default Umbraco…

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How to: Restore nodes from a SQL backup

We had an odd issue the other day where a bunch of nodes disappeared from one of our Umbraco installs. There didn't appear to be any reason behind why they were gone and the customer assured me that…

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Umbraco stuck at 5% on install

If you’ve ever gone through an install screen and got stuck at the “Connecting to database..” screen, you’ll know it’s one of the most frustrating and often worrying screens. The fix is generally…

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List all products from child categories on uCommerce

One question I’ve seen batted around a lot is how to list all products from the child categories when viewing a parent category. On the uCommerce demo store Avenue Clothing we simply loop through the…

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