How I added a Custom Umbraco Member Type for CWS Reboot programmatically

Hello all,
I am currently in the progress of rebuilding and rebooting the CWS Starter Kit project for Umbraco built in MVC on Umbraco 6. For this it will contain a members area and there is no way currently to package up member types and its custom properties.

So read on how to find out how I managed to come up with a solution to this problem.

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Don’t make the same mistake as I did when creating a custom Umbraco macro parameter type

In this blog post I will share with you some advice and a code example of a custom Umbraco macro parameter I built for a client Umbraco package.

This needed to be able to exclude document types, but the list shown to them needed to be filtered to begin with. By hiding document types that have no templates and by also excluding a predetermined list of document types such as configuration folders etc…

So read on to find out how I achieved it with some help of my colleague Anthony Dang to help debug an issue with it, which I will discuss later on.

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