The blog of Sam Beynon

Working with custom database tables in Umbraco

A new blog post, I said I'd do it eventually and apparently, here we are! Recently, I've had a hankering to look at how Umbraco databases work and to understand how to properly use NPOCO to query any custom data I might have added to a database. I found the documentation for this somewhat lacking and hard to understand, therefore I have taken it upon myself to delve into the intricacies of this topic, today, I shall enlighten you upon my findings.

Setting up an Umbraco 9/.NET Core development environment on Ubuntu

My first actual blog post, I feel good about finally starting this off, I guess we'll see how it goes after a while and whether I actually continue with it or not! Anyway, enough about the boring stuff, let's crack on with why I'm here, Umbraco 9 has been released in release candidate and I'm excited about it! A friend of mine was tinkering with trying to get .NET core working on his new laptop in Ubuntu and it inspired me to try it with Umbraco 9 although I was also entirely hoping to gain some experience with just generally building .NET core apps on Linux distributions, however, I'm far too lazy to dual boot and historically with the technologies I've worked with I've just had an easier time on Windows, so my first step was to build an Ubuntu VM which I did using VirtualBox...