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For a month of 2 or so, we didn’t start new SiteCore 5 problems.. I’m mean project . Too bad, you guess, but for us it means we just can finish the jobs for 2005. What also means that we can start all over with new versions, latest releases, in the start of 2006.
Couple [...]

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One of the main dificulties when you want to create your (first) Sheer UI is creating a good project.
With these steps you can make an easy, clear ‘workfloor’. Ofcourse you need to have Visual Studio installed(I’m talking about version 2003 now) and you should run a SiteCore 5 local .
- Create a garbage folder [...]

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I’m starting my first serie of blogs in the third week .
Here’s part two of my experiences with the SecurityModel. This is my reaction to the comment of Lars Nielsen:
I tried to use the SecuritySwitcher. To bad, but I couldn’t find the overloaded Constructor . Guess that I can find it in 5.2 [...]

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Since, I customise Sitecore even more and more, I have to work with the SecurityModel in SiteCore.
One of the main issues, when manipulating items, is the full-control access. You can get access, in your code, to nearly everything using those two code snippets:
using (new Sitecore.SecurityModel.SecurityDisabler())
{
//your code
}
or:
string userToLogin = “admin”;
Sitecore.SecurityModel.DomainAccessResult result = Sitecore.Context.Domain.Login(Sitecore.Context.Domain.GetUser(userToLogin));
if (result.Success)
{
[...]

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One of our customers had a problem with it’s Media Library.
I figures out that some of the files weren’t fisically on the cms-server. So I’ve created a small script which makes it very easy for you to check out the server…
About the code, it isn’t my best code ever, but for only one and a [...]

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“Why does this tool doesn’t have wordwrap?!”
After that…
“I told you, overwork is the nicest work of all!”

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What a day! Just finished work, correction, just home! Real work will start .
It was around 12 o’clock that one of our managers called me on my cellphone. Till that moment I was working on the documentation of a quite big replication-process which I’ve configured last 2 nights and some other (smaller stuff) for [...]

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Yesterday, I played a lot with SiteCore 4. For some (mostly) preformence reasons, we decided to build one of the new sites in SC4.
One of our new guys, just got his first introduction to SiteCore last friday. His first task was creating a small poll module.
So I tried to help him out saving results [...]

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At my work, LECTRIC, I looked together with our Business Development guy, Bert, to the brand new licensing model of SiteCore. Especially to the option small bussiness, which is, in my eyes, more less then ideal…
Let me explain:
A basic restriction of 2000 items in Sitecore(do you count them on the master-database? Are it [...]

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