Error pages in DD4T (404 and 500)

In DD4T the 404 page can be retrieved as below, Override the Action Page, and when the Page is null return the NotFound Action. In the NotFound action, Query the Broker for the 404  page and return the view. This file...

DD4TFormRouteHandler (posting a form as tridion page url)

ASP.NET routing enables us to use URLs that are not physical files, In DD4T we have the default page route definition. In which all page request redirct to Page controller and process the page. DD4TFormRouteHandler is a custom route handler responsible for mapping incoming browser requests to particular...

Handling images and on the fly re-sizing in DD4T

When it comes with DD4T we have plenty of control on the data and we can decided on how we wanted the page to be rendered. The traditional approach of having difference size of same image is replaced in DD4T to have one single image and generate the thumbnail on the fly. In this approach, we will have...

DD4T: Customizing RenderComponentPresentation

Sometime when we work with Component presentation, we might come up with the scenario to have customized RenderComponentPresentation, when we deal with Area/View or splitting view into more organized structure. We can fetch and send the area from the Template. Currently DD4T doesn’t allow injecting...

Navigation in DD4T

There always been a question on What is the best approach for building navigation with DD4T and ASP.NET MVC? Answer is: There is TridionSiteMapProvider as part of the DD4T.Mvc project, which can be used out of the box. The  DD4T.Examples.Templates project also have a example on how Sitemap can...

What is DD4T

Well, It's the high time to think about DD4T. What is DD4T? What makes more easier to the developer and Editor to talk about DD4T.!!  DD4T is a framework that developed by Tridion veterans. The framework makes it easier for Tridion developers to develop, deploy and maintain a project. The basic...

Dynamic Publication Resolving in DD4T

DD4T is a great framework which would give you everything in place what you basically needed. Here we will see how we could resolve the publication based on the URL,  when we work with multiple publications accessing same web site, our DD4T would need to query dynamically to different publications. Many...

ASP.MVC in Umbraco 6

Umbraco 6 brings new lots of improvements for developers, new datalayer, new API’s and complete support for Asp.net MVC 4. This means developers will have greater control, simpler code and higher productivity when developing with Umbraco. As the umbraco blog says, in Umbraco 6 we have: MVC support,  Native Razor support Strongly typed views   Building custom controllers Whole new shiny...

pjax with MVC, and form post like pjax

Last weekend I was working on a interesting project, and came across an interesting JavaScript library called pjax. More information on pjax: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax/ http://pjax.heroku.com/ pjax loads HTML from your server into the current page without a full reload. It's ajax with real permalinks, page titles, and a working back button that fully degrades, It just enhances the...

Why not to have a static const in c#

This is just a thought, that I was thinking why can't we have a constant with static in C#, and the answer is 'NO'; That we cannot have a static constant; e.g: I created a class as below: public class Constants1 { public const string Const1 = "Hello"; public const string Const2...