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Mocking UmbracoHelper and using it with Dependency Injection

The Umbraco APIs are full of examples where the developers have made tough design choices. The UmbracoHelper is the one, from my own experience at least, in which the reasoning behind the design is not immediately obvious. In many cases, the way the UmbracoHelper

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Dynamic Umbraco Sitemap.xml Without Plugins

It's easily possible to create a proper sitemap.xml, with the right URL, in a vanilla Umbraco installation with these three easy steps: Create a "XML sitemap" document type and template in the backoffice Add a line in the template for the "XML sitemap"

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How to create a robots.txt in Umbraco and edit it from the backoffice

It's very easy to create a robots.txt in Umbraco which you can edit from the backoffice. You can achieve this natively without installing any packages or writing custom code with these simple steps: Create a "txt file" document type in the backofficeAdd a

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Import any CSV File into Umbraco with the Umbraco LINQPad Driver

I've recently successfully imported data from a large CSV file into Umbraco using Shannon Deminick's useful Umbraco LINQPad driver. Here's a high-level overview of how I did it: You can import any valid CSV file through this process, and infact, it would work with

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What I'm Looking to Learn at Umbraco CodeGarden 2016

Guess what? I have a a ticket to Code Garden 2016. Jealous? What? no?!? Wait, what - You don't even know what that is?!? What's that? - Sit back down sir or I'll stop the bus and ask you to leave?!?!? *Ahem* Well, in

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Implementing IOC in Umbraco 7- Inversion of Control Like a Boss

I've devoted a significant amount of time this week to finding the best way to implement inversion of control for proper dependency injection in Umbraco. After much brow-furrowing and much to-ing and fro-ing with some of the Umbraco devs (shout out to @clausjnsn for