https://piotrbach.com Latest articles by Piotr Bach about Umbraco, .NET, architecture. Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:30:49 GMT Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:59:46 GMT en BachPlatform / Umbraco CMS https://piotrbach.com/blog/reset-an-umbraco-6-admin-password-in-sql-server/ Reset an Umbraco 6 administrator password in SQL Server with the correct legacy hash, then recycle the IIS App Pool before testing the backoffice login. Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:25:14 GMT Piotr Bach https://piotrbach.com/blog/reset-an-umbraco-6-admin-password-in-sql-server/ https://piotrbach.com/blog/umbraco-technical-debt/ Technical debt is not a backlog of everything that could be cleaner. In a mature Umbraco platform, the useful question is economic and operational: what cost does the current design create, what evidence supports it, and what should the team do next? Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:41:13 GMT Piotr Bach https://piotrbach.com/blog/umbraco-technical-debt/ https://piotrbach.com/blog/umbraco-upgrade-readiness/ Upgrade cost is often determined years before the upgrade begins. The useful question is not only whether an Umbraco solution can reach the next version, but how much uncertainty the surrounding platform carries into that change. Sun, 20 Sep 2026 10:33:47 GMT Piotr Bach https://piotrbach.com/blog/umbraco-upgrade-readiness/ https://piotrbach.com/blog/how-to-diagnose-umbraco-performance-problems/ Performance diagnosis is not a sequence of optimizations. It is an evidence loop: define the symptom, reproduce or observe it, decompose the latency, form a hypothesis, change the smallest useful variable, and verify the original symptom. Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:48:50 GMT Piotr Bach https://piotrbach.com/blog/how-to-diagnose-umbraco-performance-problems/ https://piotrbach.com/blog/why-umbraco-projects-become-expensive/ Umbraco projects rarely become expensive because of one catastrophic decision. Cost grows when content architecture, custom code, data, search, infrastructure, deployments, dependencies, and ownership drift apart. This guide examines the technical failure patterns that make mature Umbraco platforms harder to change, operate, and upgrade. They are not isolated checklist items: several usually reinforce one another, and the visible CMS is often only where the underlying problem surfaces. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:00:00 GMT Piotr Bach https://piotrbach.com/blog/why-umbraco-projects-become-expensive/ https://piotrbach.com/blog/aspnet-core-architecture/ ASP.NET Core does not force you into one application architecture. That freedom is useful, but it also makes it easy to accumulate layers, abstractions and infrastructure without being clear about the problem each one solves. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMT Piotr Bach https://piotrbach.com/blog/aspnet-core-architecture/ https://piotrbach.com/blog/why-umbraco-s-move-to-aspnet-core-changed-the-cms/ Umbraco 9 did more than replace one runtime with another. Moving from .NET Framework to ASP.NET Core changed where Umbraco could run, how projects were structured, how developers extended the CMS, and how Umbraco could follow Microsoft’s modern .NET release cycle. Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:34:39 GMT Piotr Bach https://piotrbach.com/blog/why-umbraco-s-move-to-aspnet-core-changed-the-cms/ https://piotrbach.com/blog/defensive-programming-in-dotnet/ A production-focused guide to designing explicit contracts, handling realistic failures, protecting trust boundaries, and recognizing defensive-programming signals during .NET code reviews and technical audits. Sun, 16 Aug 2026 06:00:00 GMT Piotr Bach https://piotrbach.com/blog/defensive-programming-in-dotnet/ https://piotrbach.com/blog/examine-umbraco-property-values-given-data-type/ A practical, read-only T-SQL technique for finding published content that uses a specific data type in Umbraco 13 Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:09:58 GMT Piotr Bach https://piotrbach.com/blog/examine-umbraco-property-values-given-data-type/ https://piotrbach.com/blog/how-to-add-umbraco-redirect-urls-directly-in-database/ Need to preserve old URLs after an Umbraco 17 migration? Here is how umbracoRedirectUrl works, how to add records with SQL Server, and how to verify the resulting 301 redirect. Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:08:39 GMT Piotr Bach https://piotrbach.com/blog/how-to-add-umbraco-redirect-urls-directly-in-database/