You’ve built your site on Umbraco, the developer-friendly CMS. You would like to provide a single-sign on experience for your users, whether using a social identity provider such as Facebook, Windows Live ID, Google, or Yahoo, or an Active Directory or other provider with federation capabilities. Now you can. Easily. Made available in conjunction with... read more
Over 85,000 active installations and growing, the Umbraco open source CMS is the choice for many organizations. Now its simplicity can be just as easily enjoyed on the Windows Azure platform, allowing you to focus on the experience, and not the infrastructure. Announced at MIX 11, the Windows Azure Accelerator for Umbraco is designed to... read more
You’ve used Orchard to easily create your product site and now you want to add commerce features. The Checkout by Amazon module contains several components that allow you to integrate checkout and shopping cart capabilities to your Orchard CMS Website. The module works with any content type that has a Title, Price, Image, Description and... read more
You have a great set of products and now a beautiful commerce site drawing significant traffic. How will you let your interested customers make purchases in an easy, familiar, and trusted manner? As demonstrated by Drew Robbins in today’s MIX 11 keynote, the Amazon Checkout Helper for WebMatrix makes it simple to integrate features such... read more
Yesterday, Brian Keller (Sr. Technical Evangelist for Team Foundation Server) announced in his blog the beta release of the OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010. The purpose of this project is to help developers to work with data from Team Foundation Server on multiple types of devices (such as smartphones and tablets) and operating... read more
Last Wednesday, Wade Wegner announced in his blog the first release of the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7. This toolkit is designed to make it easier for developers to build Windows Phone applications that leverage cloud services running in Windows Azure. The toolkit includes Visual Studio project templates for Windows Phone 7 and... read more
You need answers. For education, market research, event scheduling, and more. Sending emails intrudes upon your customers and you want to build satisfaction. And besides, who will correlate the responses? What you want is an easy way to ask questions and take polls within the context of your site. Microsoft WebMatrix and Polldaddy to the... read more
An executive consensus has been reached: it’s time to liberate our company content to the world. That means they are looking to you to convert thousands of documents into web pages, and make them easy to read, share, and access across mobile devices. But how? Scribd is the world’s largest social reading and publishing company,... read more
You’re getting started with your online business and need to collect tons of data from customers, partners, vendors and even potential employees. But just the thought of creating all the forms you need to collect the data is starting to put you off. Shouldn’t there be an easy way to add and manage forms in... read more
After having a good run of visitors in the past few months you noticed that your site traffic has started to slow down. Is your content to blame? Maybe. Or perhaps you just need to give your visitors another reason to return. The Groupon Helper for WebMatrix allows you to easily add a Groupon badge... read more