Sitefinity Error Log

Sitefinity HttpCompileException (0x80004005): External component has thrown an exception

Sam RuebyC#, Sitefinity Leave a Comment

I recently ran into a confusing stack trace occurring in several Sitefinity applications running on a single server. They all varied, but followed a similar pattern: So there’s a few things I notice with this stack trace, which helped me narrow down what might be at fault: The top of the stack trace is in System.Web. That means it’s the …

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 …

How to Activate Your MSDN Pluralsight Benefit

Sam Rueby.NET Tips, Software Development 4 Comments

Update 5/25/17 It’s a bit easier to activate the benefit now. As John Henckel pointed out in comments, all you need to do now is go to https://my.visualstudio.com and click on the Pluralsight logo. Done!   I found it pretty un-Googleable to figure out how to get your recently-announced Pluralsight subscription through your MSDN subscription. (I had to watch a video to …