• Sitefinity 4.2 SP1 released

    by Venkata Koppaka | Sep 28, 2011

    The Service Pack 1 release of Sitefinity 4.2 has been released, go get it while its hot!

    The best feature in my opinion is the Migration Module now supports Sitefinity 3.7 Community and Standard edition projects, both .NET35 and .NET40 :) wow.

    You can read more about the release notes here

    Cheers

    Venkata

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  • Disable AutoComplete on Textbox in ASP.NET

    by Venkata Koppaka | Sep 25, 2011
    There are cases when you want to turn off AutoComplete that all modern browsers offer for textbox.
    This article will guide you through on how to disable AutoComplete in ASP.NET.

    There are two ways you can achieve this -
    1. Using AutoCompleteType (works in IE and .NET specific). You can read more about AutoCompleteType here
    2. Using AutoComplete (works in all browsers, HTML attribute).
    AutoCompleteType
    AutoCompleteType can be used for achieve different behavior on the textbox, using AutoCompleteType="Disabled" turns off AutoComplete when using IE.

    <asp:TextBox ID="tbAutoCompleteIE" runat="server" AutoCompleteType="Disabled"></asp:TextBox>


    AutoComplete
    AutoComplete is a HTML attribute that can be used for any language / platform and it works in all the browsers. AutoComplete="Off" on the textbox (input) turns off AutoComplete on all browsers.

    <asp:TextBox ID="tbAutoCompleteAll" runat="server" autocomplete="Off"></asp:TextBox>

    You can download code for this post here.

    Hope this helps.

    Cheers
    Venkata
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  • Anonymous checkout in Sitefinity eCommerce

    by Venkata Koppaka | Sep 04, 2011

    Often on your eCommerce website,you might want to allow users to anonymously checkout that is allowing them to place an order even though they are not a customer of your website. There are number of reasons on why you allow anonymous checkout which you can read more about here.

    This post will show you how you would enable anonymous checkout of Sitefinity eCommerce 4.2.

    The Checkout widget controls the checkout process in Sitefinity eCommerce, so when you drag and drop Checkout widget on to your page, hit edit for bringing up the control designer property screen


    Hit advanced button on the control designer to bring up advanced properties. In the list of properties of checkout widget there is a property called CheckoutRequiresLogin, by default this value is set to true which means, every user that will checkout using your website will need to register with your website. But if you change the setting to false, the eCommerce system will allow users to checkout even though they are not a registered user of the system.

    Below is a screenshot of where the property is on Checkout Designer properties.

    Hope this helps

    Cheers

    Venkata

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