1. Ken Cenerelli
Senior Software Developer
Alvarnet Corporation
ken.cenerelli@alvarnet.com
kencenerelli.wordpress.com
@kencenerelli

2. 1. Introduction
Background on Umbraco
2. Configuring Umbraco
Installation
3. Questions + Break
4. Extending Umbraco
Umbraco Administration pages
Document Types, Templates, Stylesheets, Users &
Permissions and Packaging & Deployment
Custom development & User Controls

3. Developed in 2005 by Niels Hartvig
More than 85,000 installations worldwide
ASP.NET, Heinz, Peugeot, Tesco, Wired, FOX and
Vogue Magazine run Umbraco
Designed to run within the Microsoft stack
And best of all… it’s FREE!

4. Umbraco can be used with both Visual Studio
and WebMatrix
It can be deployed directly with the Web
Platform Installer
However the manual install gives you the most
control and as developers we like control…

5. A manual install is accomplished through a Web
Deploy in IIS 7
The Web Deployment Tool can be installed
through Microsoft Web Platform Installer from
http://www.iis.net/download/webdeploy
Note: Web Platform Installer will be installed
first if it does not exist on your system

6. First we create a database and create a user for
the database
The database will house the Umbraco settings
Next we create a new website in IIS 7 to house
our Umbraco installation
We can then install Umbraco using the
WebDeploy package 4.7.1.1 from
http://umbraco.codeplex.com/

8. Video to install with Web Platform Installer
http://umbraco.com/help-and-support/video-
tutorials/getting-started/installing-with-web-
pi.aspx
Video to walk through the install wizard:
http://umbraco.com/help-and-support/video-
tutorials/getting-started/installing-umbraco.aspx

10. Access the admin site from the site URL by
adding “/Umbraco/” to the end of the path
The trailing “/” MUST be present
The admin site is where we can modify all of the
Umbraco related items even though we have
access to the code

12. Document Type Template
Properties HTML + Place Holders
Create
Page Macros
User Controls/XSLT
web

13. A way to design data storage and a way to
generate the UI to input the data
Eg. We can have a movie document type and
within it we can have a Title, Genre, etc.
We can then extend the document types by
adding tabs and properties
Properties help add data and can make fields
mandatory
Tabs control the UI to make it more user friendly

15. Document types reflect how to store data but
templates define how to present the data
Templates are akin to ASP.NET Master Pages and
Nested Master Pages
Page templates are inherited by master
templates using <asp:Content></asp:Content>
elements

17. Are plain CSS in Umbraco and are used the
same way as in normal html
Can add properties to a stylesheet and attach
them to a Richtext Editor

19. Used for custom development when you need
to access a database or process user input
Create a new project to house both a web
application project and the Umbraco CMS
project
We will set the Umbraco project to Not To Build
We then set Post-Build Events to copy the User
Controls and DLLs from the web project to the
Umbraco project

21. The user controls are added within the admin
site
Within Umbraco a User Control is called a
Macro
We add a macro to the page and content area
where you want it to show up.

23. Cannot add a breakpoint and debug as normal
Have to use Attach To Process with both Show
processes checkboxes checked
Attach to the w3wp.exe process
Another method is to add
?umbdebugshowtrace=true as a query string to
any Umbraco-generated page to show stack
trace information

25. Users are administrators or content editors
Users are a way to limit sections of the site to
specific users and specific user functions
Members give an identity to site visitors so they
can register or login
Member Groups act like roles where a member
can belong to one or more groups
The page can then be locked down to a user or
to a member group

27. In essence the site was already deployed to the
web server
However, now that the Web Deployment Tool is
installed in your IIS, you can package and deploy
your Umbraco site to your production server

28. Umbraco 5 with support for MVC and Razor will
be released Q2 2012
Umbraco 5 training available in the GTA in
March
http://umbraco.com/products/training/schedule.as
px

29. http://umbraco.com/
http://umbraco.com/help-and-support.aspx
(videos, whitepapers, sample projects, etc.)
http://umbraco.com/developers-site.aspx
http://our.umbraco.org/ (community hub with
forums, wiki, sample projects, etc.)

30. ken.cenerelli@alvarnet.com
kencenerelli.wordpress.com
@kencenerelli