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This post gives you an example of how to get the current logged in umbraco user during the contentservice_saving event
umbraco How to stop someone changing the name of an Umbraco pageThis post shows you how you can stop someone changing the name of a page in Umbraco
umbraco How to resolve the error 'The service is unavailable' when trying to upgrade UmbracoThis post shows you how to resolve the error 'The service is unavailable' when trying to upgrade Umbraco
umbraco How to fix the Umbraco Core Exceptions BootFailedExceptionThis post shows you how you can possibly fix the BoolFailedException
umbraco How to map custom routes for Umbraco api controllersIn this post I show you how you can map custom routes for your Umbraco Api Controller.
web·sql 5 ways to harden your Azure Web App and SQL Database resources5 ways to harden your Azure Web App and SQL Database resources
umbraco How to upload a file to Umbraco from a front end formHow to upload a file to Umbraco from a front end form
umbraco How to use a datatype to populate a dropdown list in Umbraco v8In this post I share the code I wrote to get the values from dropdowns and it can be used for checkbox lists and radio button lists too.
dev How to resolve 'Problem verifying your YouTube account'This post shows you how to solve the problem where you can't verify your YouTube account.
umbraco How I migrated my Umbraco v7 site to v8 - Part 2 - ContentIn this post I share with you how I migrated my Umbraco v7 website to v8, and kept all of the same urls for my content and media.
umbraco How I migrated my Umbraco v7 site to v8 - Part 1 - MediaIn this post I show you how I migrated the media from my Umbraco v7 site to my new v8 site.
umbraco I'm talking at Umbraco Spark in March, will you be there too?Umbraco Spark is an Innovation conference about Umbraco held in Bristol in March 2020. I'll be talking there and it would be great to meet you there too.