Learn how to use your old friend ImageGen 2.5 with the brand spanking new Umbraco v5. It's quick, simple, and very powerful!

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In order to travel to the annual CodeGarden conference I need my visa application approved and passport returned from the UK Home Office Border Agency within the next two weeks.

Update: Your help has returned my passport in time!

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With Umbraco 4.7, Razor just might be the go-to language for most macros from now on. Unfortunately, even with Visual Studio 2010, intellisense was missing for @Model, the single most important part of a Razor macro.

This short video demonstrates how you can get some intellisense love for your Umbraco Razor macros. I also show you how easy it is to debug Razor macros without compiling any code.

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Searching within multi-lingual websites is simple with XSLTsearch 3. Using Umbraco's convenient dictionary items and language/culture capabilities you'll have multi-site, multi-language searching in minutes.

Here's a primer and "how to" guide to quickly set up XSLTsearch in your multi-lingual website.

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New to Umbraco 4.5, XSLT extensions in the /App_Code folder provides code that is right in front of you and easy to edit (even for non-"VisualStudio junkies"). App_Code XSLT extensions are strongly-defined (safer), cached-at-application-level (faster), and medium-trust-capable (cheaper hosting). Wow!

And they are so easy to make! Let me show you how.

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