Sitefinity: How to use an HTML editor in a custom widget designer

Sam RuebySitefinity, Software Development, Web Development 2 Comments

It constantly shocks me that Telerik makes all of these fancy widgets and form controls but they’re somehow not painfully-easy to implement when creating custom widget designers. Even when using Telerik’s Visual Studio plugin Sitefinity Thunder, it’s not a simple point-and-click to use an HTML editor for a widget property. Well I need these widgets I create to be as …

Visual Studio Extension to Compile Sass

Sam RuebyCSS, Uncategorized, Web Development 29 Comments

I’m very excited to have written my first Visual Studio Extension. Prior to this, my team and I heavily relied on Web Essentials 2013. It was somewhat clunky: it compiles simple Sass files very well. However, we kept running into a few issues: It wasn’t always up to date with the latest version of Sass, making it difficult to use mixin …

ASP.NET MVC BundleConfig, scripts returning an empty response?

Sam Rueby.NET Tips, Web Development 2 Comments

The Visual Studio template for ASP.NET MVC 5 comes with Microsoft.AspNet.Web.Optimization, which is used in BundleConfig they provide you. I haven’t used this much and wanted to try it. I wiped out the default stuff and included a line for the only script I needed. public class BundleConfig { // For more information on bundling, visit http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=301862 public static void RegisterBundles( BundleCollection …