It’s been a bit quite round here recently! Don’t be fooled! The CMS is more or less finished. Just refactoring and preparing bits and bobs.
The actual core itself hasn’t really changed in 6 months and is independent from the CMS, it handles all the page, content and control creation with a single base class that you can implement to create page renderers for any page type. Current renderers are the LiveEdit renderer, Content Block, File Include and Rss (Mobile next).
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Whilst working on the CMS I needed to be able to pass back the html a control will render when the user first adds it. The control doesn’t exist on the page yet as the sections are added via javascript. It was very easy to pass in StringWriter to the render function to get the html 
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Been a bit quiet round here lately but not because I’ve not been working on it 
I’ve been using it for a project at work and converting a lot of my stuff to be compatible with it. It’s running a site atm and doing well.
Alpha State
Mainly in alpha because things may yet change but the following all work
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Simple Permissions
The permission system is simple in design but allows complicted permissions to be created by layering the mixed key, role and level properties. The concept is that we have permissions that any item wanting to check just asks the permission system if the logged in user can carry out the action. At its simplest form it is used thus: Read more…
I spent all weekend trying to convert a Sql Server db to a MySql v5 db and found it quite a frustrating experience! When you’re sytnax is incorrect MySql helpfully says ‘You have an error in your sql syntax near:’ and error 1064. No help with which command causes the error and the position it picks for the start of the problem is usually wrong. God we’ve been spoilt by Sql Server.
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Spent this weekend working on the cms and made good progress. Got the core page rendering working with masterpages and themes. Tested it with Db and normal aspx pages. I’m wondering whether I’ve over abstracted everything atm!
Just added the security system and user accounts. Now I’ve got to decide how to expose the account creation side of it. Normally I’ve done that through controls but I’m going to have to create a utility class that devs can use and create their own controls for.
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