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Welcome you n00bs and newbies!It’s time to explore the wonderfull world of XSLT . Are you ready? Today will be a very intensive day, but don’t worry, you’ll see the result within an hour .
No serious now. XSLT is very though for most developers. I’ve seen it by myself, but have also seen that [...]

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Today, Allan Thræn has published an excellent article on the MondoSearch integration in Sitecore. A couple months ago, as lead-engineer of the product, Allan gave my colleague Ben and me a cool demo of the Sitecore 5.2 based integration of MondoSearch. We we’re happily surprised! It’s a wonderful, easily configurable and maybe even more important, very fast module. Next to it, Allan [...]

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As described here, I’m investigating what kind of problems to expect when we migrate a website from 5.2 to 5.3. As I got some time left today, I’ve decided to continue work on the project.
Migration module:
First I’ve investigated how the Migration module worked. This summary stood on SDN:
Data Migration module allows transferring data from the former versions [...]

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For one of our customers, I’m going to do a test migration from Sitecore 5.2 to 5.3 the rest of today and tomorrow. The goals of the test migration:

Find out what’s the main problem: code or content
Find out how many time is exactly spent when upgrading the original databases to a new, 5.3 version
Check which CMS-changes has [...]

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This time some really cool movies on Channel 9:

Brad Adams on AJAX for ISVs:Simple short movie about the just released version of ASP.NET AJAX by Brad Adams, one of the main evangelists for ISVs in the US.
ADO.NET Entity Framework: What. How. Why.:I’ve been looking for this movie for a long time, it’s posted back in September 2006, but remains [...]

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Yes it’s time to do an update on Microsoft. They are incredible busy. And they are releasing like no other company is able. Make sure you got a minute or 60 to explore all these features! Just grap another cup of coffee before you start! Because here’s the summary of January:

Orcas update: the January CTP is released. There are [...]

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Was writing an article for you guys about pipelines in Sitecore 5.3… And found out that I’m missing some classes in the .CHM.For example, take those 3:
<getMediaStream><processor type=”Sitecore.Resources.Media.ThumbnailProcessor, Sitecore.Kernel”></processor><processor type=”Sitecore.Resources.Media.ResizeProcessor, Sitecore.Kernel”></processor><processor type=”Sitecore.Resources.Media.GrayscaleProcessor, Sitecore.Kernel”></processor></getMediaStream>

Only the ResizeProcessor is available in the .CHM. The Reflector provides me the reason: the ThumbnailProcessor and GrayScaleProcessor seem to be internal. But [...]

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One of my funniest colleagues, Ben, has started his own blog about Sharepoint 2007. I do like that as we haven’t been able to explore this new Microsoft stuff a lot. And maybe more important, Ben has a little daughter and a very unpatient girlfriend . So Ben is the guy you want to do [...]

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In the past I’ve posted a pretty nice example of efficient code. These days, I’ve written this incredible simple but usefull functionality for fields:

    1     public static class FieldUtil<T> where T : Sitecore.Data.Fields.CustomField
    2     {
    3         /// <summary>
    4         /// Returns a field implicit casted to the required type(T) and logs a warning in case of the [...]

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Having problems with Visual Studio 2005. While building my solution, Microsoft.Common.target, a MSBuild config-file tells me they want to delete several DLLs but isn’t allowed to do that. It seems to be a post built event. Can’t reproduce it directly on my Playground but I’ve the feeling that ist has somethign todo with the triangle [...]

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