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NInject and Umbraco Trouble? Or simply need to extend Global.asax?

So Bluetube Interactive has recently been doing a lot of Umbraco projects, rolling out several new sites on the platform.  As a method of speeding development, all of our projects leverage Injection frameworks and our framework of choice for .NET is NInject.  However, due Umbraco and NInject both want to extend the Global.asax, which isn't possible.  So what is a developer to do?

The answer is surprisingly simple.  Although Umbraco does in fact extend Global.asax in its own class, it turns out it does not have a significant use... or at least one not significant enough to prevent us from wanting to use our Injection framework of choice.

In the bin folder, find a remove the following file:

App_global.asax.dll

Having issue with App_Browsers too?  It seems Umbraco inherits from that as well.

App_Browsers.dll

Both can be safely removed and at least to this point, we have not seen a negative impact.

Also, remmber with NInject you'll want to inherit from Ninject.Web.UserControlBase, not from WebControlBase.

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Adding facebook comments to a .Net page

Facebook makes it very easy to add comments to a website but with their old api  and new api  and updates its often difficult to follow what you should and shouldn't be doing.  In the end the code was very simple but it took us a few rounds to get it correct.  Bluetube interactive implemented facebook comments for one of our clients Ticket Alternative as follows :

Setup your commenting "app"

First you need to create an app for your comments and if you have multiple websites I'd suggest creating an app with a unique name..  You do this under "my apps" in your facebook account, you can read more about it here.

You should now have an app id, and you'll want to cut/paste this somewhere for easy retrieval, it will look something like :

204151772941335

(example app id, don't use it)

Getting the code

You can then get facebook to generate the comment code for you

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments/

You then need to paste that code into your page, correcting the appid if its wrong ( I have multuple app id's so it chose the wrong one)

The code will look something like this :