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These days deployment is a pretty important part of the development process. It starts with informing the sysop’s about requirements and the necessary add-ins and changes to the OS. Microsoft has published a very cool Guide for our TechNet/IT Pro colleagues. Check out the release blogpost at Tim Sneath’s blog. The deployment guide can be [...]

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Last week I found and extremely simple tool in the namespace ‘Sitecore.Text’: UrlString. This class allows me to manipulate URLs in an easy way. Very usefull when you want to extend an URL with a querystring paramater. For example: UrlString googleUrl = new UrlString(“http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl”);googleUrl.Add(“q”, “your search text”);//Returns http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=your%20search%20textResponse.Write(googleUrl.GetUrl()); Or even when you want to change the [...]

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I’ve seen it over and over, programmers who use the literal “localhost” in their code. Together with Sitecore it’s absolutely NOT necesarry. Please, use Sitecore.Web.WebUtil.GetServerUrl() instead. It avoids plenty of strange issues while deploying. Note: make sure that you place a slash after the output of the method as it doesn’t contain any by default. By [...]

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Yes, I start this post with Part 1 of X. A lot of you guys have noticed that I’m not that good at finishing blogseries. I guess that’s the result of trying always be one step ahead. you forget what’s ahead . Well back to the subject again: productivity. For a long time I’m noticing [...]

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As you all know, Sitecore has customized the whole ASP.NET framework a little for own proposes. Sometimes this does mean that you have to take a little more actions to get some stuff done. Today I’m going to show you how we can create a cool .ashx. I’m going to generate some extreme cool circles [...]

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You might noticed that I wasn’t quite active last weeks, but from know I’ll bevery active again in the blog-o-spher. Later today finally some tech-posts will appear. But now I want to point you on some refreshments of my blog. Some improvements: Better category division. More taglike and also less expanded. General programming entries are better categorized as well. That [...]

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Yesterday we had a serious issue with one of the improved layout for a release 2 of one of our projects. As it really became a show stopper for 2 of my colleagues I decided to give it the highest priority. While debugging I came to the conclusion I wasn’t really following a straight path. [...]

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There’s a real cool topic on SDN5-Forum about creating items using the API. A bunch of active chaps from the community are present there including Peter who provides a nice solution. Make sure you also read the following reply written by myself on using the EditContext: It’s not really recommended to use the EditContext as the code [...]

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