Hi, I am

Aaron Sadler

Umbraco Certified Master, C# / .Net Web Developer, Certified Azure Cloud Engineer & Dev Ops Engineer

Why do I blog?

Welcome to my dumping ground of useful Tips N Tricks, download links and anything I don't want to loose or I have found useful.

Exam passed 486: Developing ASP.NET MVC Web Applications
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Umbraco: An unexpected network error on Azure Web Apps

So i've had an ongoing issue with Umbraco sites randomly failing (500 Errors) in Azure when setup as Web Apps. I have managed to find a solution for this, the Examine Index needs to be stored in th...

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Save £10 on Shadow.tech Virtual Gaming PC

So you may have seen the Shadow Virtual Gaming PC on Channel5's The Gadget Show, this where i found about it. Subsequently i opened an account and so far pretty impressed, it streams fairly smooth...

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New project now live ST220 ENTHUSIASTS

I have just pushed my latest project live for the group ST220 ENTHUSIASTS. It is a mobile friendly Umbraco CMS based website, the front end has been written using Bootstrap, jQuery, Now UI, AJAX an...

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Save 20% on G Suite Basic or Business

Using one of my codes below you can save 20% off the first year of G Suite Basic or G Suite Business. (These codes are on a first come first served basis) My Referal Link (You must use this link fo...

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How to increase the Umbraco Media upload limit

If you need to increase the upload limit with Umbraco, this can easily be done if you have root access to your server. You may have to contact your hosting provider if this is not the case. First o...

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Code highlighting the easy way

So after relaunching this site using Umbraco and the default Bootstrap 4 theme (blog) i realised there was no <code> highlighting included in bootstrap. After some quick Googling i came acros...

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Visual Studio update to 15.5.3 breaks donet core 2.0 solution

I came across an issue after updating my Visual Studio version to 15.5.3 which would cause my solution to throw an exception whenever it tried to access the database. System.IO.FileLoadException: '...

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(UPDATED) Virgin Media Business - My installation journey

UPDATE 10PM 6/08/2018:Received an email from the only install manager interested in my case, telling me that they have had no contact from dispatch regarding Wednesday, but he has said he has booke...

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Geting PreValues from Umbraco Data Type

I thought i would share the solution to getting the pre values from a Data Type, as the documentation for this on the Umbraco website seems to have been removed. The code below is an edited version...

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