The Cloud Team Blog

Welcome to our blog. It contains our thoughts, ideas, and expressions from our team to share with you. Hopefully you find some useful information here!

  • Adding a starting node for the Orchard Navigation Menu Widget

    Thursday, May 16, 2013

    On many websites I have built there is a need to create Footer Navigation that looks like the following : This presents a challenge in Orchard because the navigation elements span multiple zones … more

  • Security patch recommended for all versions of Orchard

    Friday, May 10, 2013

    A non-persistent XSS vulnerability has been discovered in the Orchard.Comments module that is distributed with the core distribution of the CMS. The module could in some circumstances let an external … more

  • Serve an HTML 5 font file from Azure

    Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013

    Windows Azure does not have the MIME type for .WOFF files configured in IIS by default. To get around this we can either add a mapping in the web.config under the web server section or add one into … more

  • Secure File Field For Orchard CMS

    Friday, Apr 26, 2013

    Today I published a complete version of the CloudConstruct.SecureFileField module to the Orchard gallery. After having some issues with my Version 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2...1.3 is the working version. I … more

  • Running the Windows Azure emulator from the command prompt

    Monday, Apr 22, 2013

    Often times you just want to spin up an emulated version of your Windows Azure Cloud Service quickly and not bother with the debugger. If you already have a version of your site built then you can … more

  • Retrieving Role Information in your Orchard View Templates

    Sunday, Apr 14, 2013

    If you need to only render information for specific users based on pre-defined Orchard CMS roles you can use this this snippet :     var firstName = "";    bool isClient = false;& … more

  • Running an Orchard site with SSL

    Saturday, Apr 13, 2013

    An important part of any production site is protecting user logins and data. Many sites can be built without the need for SSL because they do not have users authenticating to them or updates are only … more

  • Using the Admin Attribute on your Custom Module Controllers

    Saturday, Apr 06, 2013

    This is a quick post on the Admin Theme in your custom modules. If you are building a custom module and end up creating a controller without the name of AdminController then you need to use the [ … more

  • Rendering alternates for your ad-hoc shapes in Orchard CMS

    Thursday, Apr 04, 2013

    If you start building very customized websites with Orchard CMS you will soon realize you need to be able to render shapes differently in different zones. You have options when the shapes differ by … more

  • Using the ASP.NET Chart Control with Multiple Windows Azure Webroles

    Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013

    Many people migrating to Windows Azure may find that some components of their existing sites no longer work when they move to a Cloud environment. Windows Azure is a PAAS solution that provides you … more