Umbraco - public abstract Gravy : Power

Gravyframe

For the last few months I have been working on a boilerplate and example of how I think a website should be built on top of a .NET CMS. The basic idea is to abstract away the underlining CMS treating it as a detail not part of the core solution.

Umbraco

Examine: Indexing and searching with multipart properties

One of the features I am building into Gravyframe is news, and one of the features is that news items can be assigned to more than one category. The approach I have taken is to have an Examine (Lucene) index that knows about the news items and the categories they

Umbraco

UmbracoExamine Y U use internal static

Just spent the evening trying to mock out a custom indexer extended from BaseUmbracoIndexer. I want to add the site to lucene documents so that news can be searched in the scope of a site. I mocked out the dependencies for the new indexer, but then when the unit test

Umbraco

Mocking Examine, an Umbraco index story

I have been slaving away for the past three weeks trying to mock Examine, the library that Umbraco uses for indexing. It is based on Lucene and seems to be very easy to use. However in my quest to build an example application the TDD way, I needed to mock

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Mocking an Umbraco Node

UPDATE: Fluently Mocking an Umbraco Node For the last few months, I have been working on an example showing that it is possible to produce sites on top of a CMS in a TDD manner. The aim is to get more people using TDD by giving a starting point. Currently,