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This post gives you a tutorial on how to create a page view hit counter in Umbraco for recording page views.

This post shows you how to overcome the problems with installing the Dialogue forum package in your Umbraco site.

This post shows you how you can create the functionality to export data as a CSV file to download and open in Excel.

This is a simple and straight forward tutorial on how to set up and configure error logging with log4net in your .NET application.

Searching for prime numbers can be fun. This post shows you how I did it.

This post gives you the code and simple instructions on how to create your own custom integration for slack, written in .NET C#

Over the years, I have heard both sides of the argument about whether you should or shouldn't write comments in your code. In this post, I make my argument as to why I think you should avoid writing comments in your code.

Using the umbracoUrlAlias property on a page in Umbraco gives you the ability to set up one or more different URLs for a single page. The page structure of your site might create long URLs, and you may want to a shorter one, the umbracoUrlAlias will do that for you. Or a page may have previously existed with a different URL, and you want to catch the traffic going to that URL and get them to look at this page, the umbracoUrlAlias will do that for you as well.

This post gives you a step by step guide on how to install Umbraco on your local machine using Visual Studio, NuGet, IIS and SQL Server.

In Umbraco, you may want to perform certain actions when a content item or member is being saved or created. This post shows you how to do that. This is relevant for Umbraco projects that use MVC.

This post shows you how to set up and use bundling and minification in your MVC website. There are specific instructions on how set it up for Umbraco websites too.

I must admit, in the past when I just want some code to run, but it's not critical if it fails, I have written a try catch block which looks like this.