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I was thinking about the staging- module. Which is actually 90% of the time a perfect solution for ‘Sitecore-webfarms’. But actually everybody tought it is. Because it isn’t. What’s the case? When you use the staging module to seperate 2 environments(LAN + DMZ) from each other. You actually also have to publish the Extranet-database! Ofcourse [...]

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Last Friday I finally installed VS.Net 2005 Final version. Together with some of my collegues I’ve played a time with the new features like: partial classes, generics, nullable types, etc . On satuday I’ve been playing mostly with the generics, as they are, in my opinion, the biggest change and advantage of C# 2.0. I [...]

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Four weeks of silence… Yes I’m nearly ready with the upgrade. I received the upgraded and patched databases from our dear friends in the Ukraine. I’ve nearly finished rewriting Sitecore code for the upgrade. As a matter of fact, it just was recompiling against the new DLLs and fix one problem: – IDomain -> Domain [...]

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As developer you are lazy like hell. As a matter of fact, my main goal every day is to keep my mouseclick below the 1000 . Two advantages: my collegues are actually the same and my boss knows that he shouldn’t try to make us click more on daily base . Rather then clicking you [...]

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As engineer I guess everybody likes to debug some stuff. Including me. What I actually dislike are the ‘already expected’ bugs. Today I found three big bugs in some code of myself and some of my collegues. So it’s time to write down muy first SC5 development rules. My today’s rules are about: walking trough [...]

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I was surfing accross SDN today and there I found at the known issues part for Sitecore 5.1.1 the following note: Extranet security changes require IIS Restart Access right assignments you make for the Extranet Users and Roles won’t take effect until IIS is restarted. This issue can be fixed by installing the Extranet Security [...]

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One of the things that keep me busy these days are the things Runi Thomson wrote as a comment of this post. He is reacting on the question of Alexey Rusakov about if SiteCore will be released in both .Net versions or just in one after the release of 5.2. This is the reaction of [...]

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Notthing is more frustrating then an installation where occur errors. I got the following error: Login Failed for User ‘sa’, Not Associated with a trusted SQL Server Connection. Guess what, I’m working on a developer notebok of our customer and mixed authentation mode wasn’t allowed. The solution is quite easy to find using Google: http://www.banmanpro.com/support/sql2k.asp

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Today I’m starting with upgrading from v5.0.6.1 tot v5.1.18. Because of some database corruption we agreed that SiteCore will upgrade the databases(Thank you Alexander Shyba!). For me just the code left . I need to upgrade in total 3 projects: 1. The layouts 2. Some custom workflow actions based on roles 3. A custom client [...]

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