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About the Book
You Are A Legend! If you are thinking of buying this book then first, thank you it means a lot to me! The knowledge in this book has taken me 18 years to learn. Why spend years waiting to learn something when you can take a shortcut.
1. Opening
Book Contents
2. Installing Umbraco
Installation Process Explained
Getting To Know The Config ***
Structuring Your Solution
How To Upgrade To Umbraco 8
Exercises and Further Reading
3. Create a Basic Webpage
Document Types
Model First Explained
Route Hijacking
View Models
Templates
Exercises and Further Reading
4. Querying Umbraco For Data
IContent Vs IPublished Content
Umbraco Context
The Published Content Cache
Querying The Cache For Data
Exercises and Further Reading
5. Creating The Site Furniture
Where To Store Global Settings?
Composers and Components
The Master Layout
The Header And Footer
Exercises and Further Reading
6. Property Editors
Content & Rich-text
Markdown
Grids
Grid Layout + DTGE
Nested Content
Block List Editor
Exercises and Further Reading
7. Building Common Components
Build An API
Search
Forms
Sitemap.xml
Breadcrumb
Members - Profile section could be better
Exercises and Further Reading
8. Umbraco Packages
Development Accelerators
Themes Reviewed
Copying Document-types, Content And Media Between Environments
Creating A Blog
Responsive Images
Exercises and Further Reading
9. Request Pipeline Demystified
UmbracoApplication
Event Handling
Routing
Content Finder
Logging
Reoccurring Tasks
Exercises and Further Reading
10. Multi-language And Micro-sites
How To Architect A Multi-Language Within Umbraco
Micro-sites
Exercises and Further Reading
11. Customizing The Umbraco Backend
Secure Backend Controllers
Creating A Custom Backend Dashboard
Content Apps
Changing Where The Media Folder Is Hosted
Exercises and Further Reading
12. Unit Testing and Dependency Injection
Dependency Inversion Principle and Inversion Of Control
Light-Inject
Mocking
Testing Frameworks
Testing Umbraco Controllers
Testing Document-Types
Testing Authentication **
Exercises and Further Reading
13. Website Launch Preparation
Performance
Caching
Url Rewriting
Release Day
Maintenance reminders
Goodbye!
Additional Resources
About the Author
Software Architect, Programmer and Technologist Jon Jones is founder and CEO of London-based tech firm Digital Prompt. He has been working in the field for nearly a decade, specializing in new technologies and technical solution research in the web business. A passionate blogger by heart , speaker & consultant from England.. always on the hunt for the next challenge