With VS.NET 2005 the VS.NET product team decided to change the behaviour of VS.NET for web applications. Up to VS.NET 2003 only virtual directories and files explicitly added to the projects were taken into consideration for the compilation. With VS...

Accessibility guidelines require to ensure that alternate text (ALT attribute) is provided for images. MCMS itself does not have a method to enforce that an ALT text needs to be provided with any image added to a placeholder. The following steps will...

Today I received the question if it is possible to script the actions of the DCA when changing the MCMS database. This can be extremly useful in developer environments where users develop against different databases. Actually the DCA cannot be scripted...

Clearing Hyperlinks does not work after installing SP2 Before installing SP2 it was possible to clear a hyperlink by selecting the hyperlink text, clicking on the hyperlink button and clearing the URL part. After installing SP2 the hyperlink is not...

Site Deployment export does not work on databases created before SP2 and moved to SQL Server 2005 This problem will occur with all databases which have been migrated from MCMS 2002 SP1a and then moved to SQL Server 2005. If you are affected by this...

[Via Spencer Harbar ] A number of people have requested information regarding upgrading the WoodgroveNet Sample Site to an MCMS SP2 application which uses ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. Whilst the WoodgroveNet sample is not considered best practice...

A couple of customers reported problems when using the menu control with ASP.NET 2.0 and MCMS. After analyzing one of the affected projects I identified that the reason for the problem is that the menu control seems to have a bug. It does not work...

[via Web Content Management in Office "12" ] By now many people have heard that the upcoming version of MCMS 2002 (which I’ll refer to as ‘CMS’ for the sake of this post) will be built entirely on the Windows SharePoint Services architecture (with...

DCA complains about missing priviledges when selecting a database when SQL authentication is being used Our current findings show that this issue is caused by the fact that the DCA now always verifies if the MCMS system account has db_datareader, db_datawriter...

Good news: Chapter 5 from the Advanced MCMS Development book discussing how to integrate search into a MCMS site is now available on MSDN: Chapter 5: Searching MCMS with SharePoint

With VS.NET 2005 all virtual directories inside a web application as assumed to be part of the ASP.NET project. This causes some problems when building the project as all files in the "CMS" virtual directory are included in the compile. As these files...

[Via Angus Logan ] The guys from Telerik who invented the famous replacement for the HtmlPlaceholderControl started their own blog! Check it out: http://blogs.telerik.com/

A must read for everyone interested in computer security from Mark Russinovich of www.sysinternals.com : http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2006/01/antispyware-conspiracy.html

Arpan has released an article with new destails about MCMS and SharePoint next version. A must read! http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans/archive/2005/12/30/508244.aspx

Sandeep Maheshwari is the bad guy of this story. He uploaded a code sample to GotDotNet which uses undocumented API calls to update the MCMS repository content. If he would like to do something like this to his own repository: fine! He will loose the...