Falafel Dashboard now available on NuGet

The Falafel Dashboard has been updated today with new widgets, and better still, is now easily downloadable via NuGet! This release brings a few new widgets as well as some new features that will hopefully help developers more easily develop and add their own widgets to the dashboard.

New Widgets: Error Logs and Recent Comments

The Dashboard now includes two brand new widgets to give you even more at-a-glance info on your dashboard.

The Error Logs widget reads all of the log files from your Sitefinity Logs folder and displays them in a ...

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There are many articles and blog posts about this topic. However, most are outdated or take the loooong way. I have a simple, clean solution for you! Here it goes:

1. Upgrade your Web Forms application to .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2012 if ...

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The NuGet site on codeplex says that it is a “package management system for the .NET platform intent on simplifying the process of incorporating third party libraries into a .NET application during development”. 

That’s a good summary, but here’s how I think of it--I no longer have to worry so much about keeping all my .NET tools and libraries up-to-date or spend a lot of time figuring out ...