Thursday, November 21, 2013

Orchard CMS WebAPI Module

I'm evaluating Orchard CMS for a proof of concept at work.  The one missing piece, at least that I haven't found out of the box, is an API that let me get certain data.  In this case I want a list of pages that I've created.  I've seen this post about creating a controller with API:

Orchard CMS And ASP.NET Web API

but I wasn't sure how to pull it together until I re-read, "I created a module, called Sunkist.ContactManager".  Ok, how do you do that, the post didn't quite explain that part, as that wasn't the intent.  And then I came across this post on another blog:

OrchardProject + WebApi = interesting

I'm hoping with these two pieces I'll be able to create a hook into Orchard that will allow me to do exactly what I want.  I'm hoping that something like this we'll be native in the future.  It seems like a fundamental aspect of a CMS.  Either way I'm enjoying using Orchard and hope we can adopt it at work.

Monday, November 18, 2013

Little Experience: Change the default Command Prompt directory

Searching BING produced very little results on this topic but this seemed to work.

Little Experience: Change the default Command Prompt directory:

However, the instructions are a tad off, create a string value of type REG_SZ and set the value according to the post.


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Sunday, November 3, 2013

Fix for Windows Store App not working after Windows 8.1 Upgrade

If anyone is having trouble getting their windows store apps to run, or some of them, you might try installing windows media player.  I've using a KN/N version on my Surface Pro and upgrading caused some of my apps to stop working, 7 Little Words, Blockworld, etc.  Using this suggestion:

Fix for Windows Store App not working after Windows 8.1 Upgrade

Did not work but installing WMP from here did:

Media Feature Pack for N and KN versions of Windows 8.1.  Remember to use the x64 version if you're running the 64-bit version.  This seems to have fixed the issue.