Today, Falafel Software, the premier Consulting & Training company for Sitefinity worldwide, released a new version of its book “Sitefinity 5 Nuts & Bolts”.

We were very excited last week with the release of Sitefinity 5.  It has been running fast and solid on several machines (servers) here at Falafel Software.

One blemish though was the major breaking change to the authentication of the REST APIs.  If you are upgrading from a 4.x site to 5.0, no worry that change will not affect you (not right away at least), but if you are setting up a brand new Sitefinity 5 Web Application, the default authentication has changed from FORMS authentication to CLAIMS authentication which will break any code previously written using the REST API ...

There has been many features released in Sitefinity within the last year, but one of my most favorite is Module Builder! If you have read my previous blog post about migrating modules from Sitefinity 3.7 to 4.0, you must have been overwhelmed with the 8000+ lines of code it took to create a module in Sitefinity 4. And most of the it was cookie-cutter code from module to module.

Now with Sitefinity 4 and 5's Module Builder, you can create modules without writing any code! If you have manually created modules for Sitefinity 4, you should be asking ...

It has been over a year now that our team has been working with Sitefinity 4.x, from the first release of 4.0 through the other 9 releases and patches through 2011.

To say the least it has been a very painful year for Falafel to work with Sitefinity 4 and I can add that it has been equally or even more painful for the Sitefinity team at Telerik to go through this painful year with numerous punches from customers, media and experts all the over the place, but most painful probably from their own partners.

From the pricing change ...

In this video, I wish to demonstrate the ability of changing the default workflow in Sitefinity using Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0.  The video is based on the code provided by the Sitefinity SDK here

In the following video, I will demonstrate the ability to do the same from a class library referenced from outside of the Sitefinity Project file system as well.

Please let us know if this video was useful to you and if you would like to see more information and demos on Custom Workflows in the future.

The “Email Campaign” module of Sitefinity 4 is what you would use to create email campaigns, manage lists of subscribers, and test AB campaigns. If you haven’t used this module, you can get more information on the Sitefinity website by clicking this link:

http://www.sitefinity.com/40/help/developers-guide/sitefinity-essentials-modules-working-with-email-campaigns.html

While this is a very useful module in Sitefinity 4 out of the box, I’m going to show you how you could add some additional functionality to this module. For the purposes of this Blog, let’s assume you would like to be able to export your Mailing Lists to a csv file. The way we will ...

So disappointed in this web site www.amplicate.com.  They are dishonest and falsely represent people’s opinion without their permission or approval.

Few days ago after the release of Sitefinity 4.3, I shared my opinion on twitter about a feature that is still not implemented in 4.3  while using the hashtags #sitefinity and #fail to represent my opinion that it is a shame that these minimal features are still not fixed or implemented in 4.3.

I am a big supporter of Sitefinity, love the product and their team and have nothing but respect and appreciation for Telerik as a company and ...

In a previous blog I demonstrated how you can create custom profile fields and access them in code. When creating the custom profile field there is one common setting that seems to be missing from the properties of your new profile fields. That is a ‘read-only’ checkbox. While there is no checkbox available to make these read-only, it can be done. In fact, you have the ability to set your field to read-only differently in all the places this field shows up on your website (i.e. backend, frontend, creating and editing).

Here’s how you do it:

Assuming you have previously ...

In this Blog I’m going to talk about some of the settings that are available to you in the Sitefinity Administrator for controlling password strength requirements in Sitefinity 4.

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In Sitefinity 4.1 there are some new features for helping to manage the fields for your website users in the Administrator. There are also new page controls available in the “Users” section of the Page widgets that you can drop on your pages to collect and view the user data (see below). For this blog I will show you the steps for adding a custom field to your user profile data in case you need to store some additional data for each of the users in your site.

To start with this process, from the Sitefinity Administrator, choose "Administration" ...

In this video, building a new Template in Sitefinity 4.0 SP1 is demonstrated using a sample template from FreeCssTemplates.org, using Visual Studio 2010.

I demonstrated the reason behind the new location of “WebSiteTemplates” under App_Data and the easiest way to perform the transfer of an existing non-Sitefinity template to Sitefinity 4.0

 Hope you enjoy!

As we welcome the New Year, we also welcome Sitefinity 4.0 to the scene. This is a real treat for the Internet. With a web service architecture (WCF), a built-in ORM, and integrated RAD controls, Sitefinity 4 is probably the most flexible content management system known to man. Just check out their API if you don’t believe me.

I am not the only one celebrating Sitefinity 4.0's arrival... Falafel Software threw their own welcome party and I was invited! This was going to be exciting… the largest Sitefinity Marketplace contributor in the same room with the leading Sitefinity partner.

The ...

The week of November 8th 2010, Telerik conducted a great Webinar presented by my dear friend Gabe Sumner, Sitefinity’s Chief evangelist at Telerik.

During the webinar, Gabe showed many features of the upcoming Release Candidate and also shared with the community, almost 1000 webinar attendees, the new pricing model, the new partners model and their new tiered approach.

I have to admit, I have been working with Telerik for the last 6 years on all their products as a partner, consultant, trainer and most of all a friend of the company and a close friend to their management and lots ...

Still as of Sitefinity 3.7 SP3, it is still really hard to find out all the available WebUIEditors and Selectors available for Sitefinity properties during Custom Control Development.

With some snooping around using .NET Reflector, you could see they are all over the place.  Most of them are undocumented so be careful :)

These are the 20 WebUIEditors and Selectors currently found in the shipping 3.7 SP3:

Telerik.Blogs.WebControls.BlogsSelector
Telerik.Cms.Engine.WebControls.Categories.CategoriesSelector
Telerik.Cms.Engine.WebControls.ContentSelector
Telerik.Cms.Engine.WebControls.HtmlContentEditor
Telerik.Cms.Engine.WebControls.RssContentSelector
Telerik.Cms.Engine.WebControls.Tags.TagSelector
Telerik.Cms.Web.UI.CmsUrlWebEditor
Telerik.Cms.Web.UI.DhlIdEditor
Telerik.FileManager.UrlWebEditor
Telerik.Libraries.WebControls.DocumentsSelector
Telerik.Libraries.WebControls.DownloadListSelector
Telerik.Libraries.WebControls.GallerySelector
Telerik.Libraries.WebControls.ImageSelector
Telerik.Libraries.WebControls.LibrarySelector
Telerik.Lists.WebControls.ListSelector
Telerik.News.WebControls.NewsSelector
Telerik.Notifications.Newsletters.WebControl.GroupSelectionList
Telerik.Polls.WebControls.PollBoxEditor
Telerik.Rss.WebControls.RssFeedSelector
Telerik.Search.WebControls.IndexingServicesPicker

These are the class names with their full namespace that needs to be ...