Extending Sitecore ContentSearch with the IQueryable interface
The decision to implement a LINQ provider for the new Sitecore 7 content search is truely clever as the LINQ syntax allows a developer to do a whole lot with very few lines of code in a fairly fluent...
View ArticleSitecore ContentSearch - Beware of the Context!
This is an informal post about one of the less frequently visited parts of Sitecore ContentSearch - the context and more specifically the context in relation to the underlying Lucene indexes that ships...
View ArticleSitecore Pipeline Enabled LinkProvider
The LinkProvider is probably one of the most customized features in Sitecore and there are a bunch of great blog posts about how to create your own LinkProvider including these excellent posts by...
View ArticleCSS Resource Versioning with Microsoft ASP.NET Web Optimization
This post will demonstrate how you can easily add version tags (aka fingerprints) to file references (font, image references and so on) in your CSS style bundles when using Microsoft’s Bundling and...
View ArticleIntroducing the Sitecore Item Binding Framework
I have spent the last 10+ years working with Sitecore and I have loved every minute of it - well almost every minute. The only part that I have never liked is the ridiculous amount of time spent...
View ArticleCombining Sitecore ItemBinding with Glass.Mapper.Sc
You can’t have your cake and eat it too a popular saying goes. However I never like being told what I can and can’t do and the other day I was thinking about how cool it would be to combine something...
View ArticleSitecore ItemBinding TDS Code Generation Templates
This is just a short post to announce that I have released a set of Team Development for Sitecore T4 code generation templates for Sitecore ItemBinding.The templates are fairly basic but hopefully they...
View ArticleCreating secure web services with Web API 2 and Sitecore
Microsoft Web API 2 brings a lot of improvements when dealing with security in HTTP based web services. In this post I will show how to use some of these features in conjunction with Sitecore to create...
View ArticleSitecore Publish Cache Dependency
From time to time we all run into situations where we want to use caching to store data and when working with Sitecore a lot of those situations also involves data originating from items. But what...
View ArticleSitecore Itembinding Framework registering custom model factories
Just a quick post to pick up on one of the improvements that has been added to the Sitecore ItemBinding Framework. When the framework was first release it was possible to create your own custom model...
View ArticleImplementing a Differentiated robots.txt on a Sitecore Multisite
I recently answered a question on how to implement a differentiated robots.txt in Sitecore when you have multiple websites running in the same instance. I know that to some this may seem like a trivial...
View ArticleRelative Data Source Paths When Inserting a Rendering in Sitecore
When you are working with Sitecore sites where the pages have a lot of inserted renderings you usually also end up with a lot of data sources and if they are all placed in a central location then you...
View ArticleSitecore Clones and ItemCloning.ForceUpdate – It Almost Works!
Recently I found myself in a situation where using clones in Sitecore seemed like a good idea. We had a large product item tree on a main site that we also wanted to use on a number of sub sites so we...
View ArticleSitecore Web Forms for Marketers Adds jQuery Scripts to Your Pages
Recently I had an issue with a JavaScript in a Sitecore 8.2 update 3 installation that was throwing errors on some pages and not on others. I started comparing the different pages and realized that the...
View ArticleNullReferenceException in SessionStateItemCollection.Remove() in Sitecore 8.2...
After upgrading to Sitecore 8.2 update 3 I received the following error at random in the content editor and experience editor. [NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an...
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Extending the Sitecore Device Editor Dialog with Datasource Information
Back in time, most pages used to have a number of fields directly on the page item and maybe three or four inserted renderings at the most. However, in recent time I have noticed that more and more of...
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Error in Sitecore Publishing Server 2.1.0 if an Item Version has a Publish...
This is just a short description of an error that I have encountered in Sitecore Publishing Server v. 2.1.0. If you have an item with two versions and the second version has a publish from date set but...
View ArticleSitecore Publishing Server and Content Availability
As long as I have worked with Sitecore the three main complaints that I have always received from content editors are that the experience editor is slow, publishing is slow and that the publishing...
View ArticleSitecore Context Database is Null, What is Your Context?
I frequently receive questions about the context database in Sitecore and about what the content database is and how it relates to the context database. So here is a small breakdown of the database...
View ArticleNavigating the Layers of Helix
In my discussions with other fellow Sitecore developers there is one topic that comes up frequently which is, what to do if you find yourself in a situation where you have two feature modules that in...
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