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An annoying issue which came across twice this week: Sitecore was throwing “Specified cast is not valid”-Exceptions:

And seriously, if there’s one thing I hate about .NET in general, it are exceptions. 95% of the time they are non self explaining and sometimes even nonsense. This exception would normally take me 20 minutes to solve at least. But [...]

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One of the most unknown but very useful feature in Sitecore is the Subitem Sorting. Often there’s a need to sort a group of Items in a particular order. Either to create a good navigation or to help the content editor find their content.
So let’s have a look how this functionality is working. I’ve [...]

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Sometimes when you’re updating item in hooks, you’ll receive strange error messages in the client. The reason for this is quite clear. Sitecore has an event system divided in 2 parts: the regular events such as item:created. The other one is the NotificationContext. This particular class is used by the Sitecore client to get notified [...]

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At Sitecore we have upgraded our site to version 6. Because of our tightly integration with background systems it took a little moment. But finally we’re there.
As we’ve got 20+ content editors across the globe, the change affected lots of editors. I’ll show you a mail from the head of our marketing department, Paul Markun, [...]

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There seem to be a couple of issues with some libraries referenced in 5.3 when you run those libraries on an 64-bit environment. A while ago I heard about a trick which would allow you to run IIS in 32-bit mode, even when the OS is running on 64-bits. Today a partner called me with [...]

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My half German, half Australian friend Phil Heltewig has made a cool movie about our new WebForms for Marketeers module:
High Res Hosted Version: http://www.sitecoreaustralia.com.au/webforms/Low Res Youtube Version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkBGobrOtKY
 
Well done Aussie!

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We’ve sent out this message today after some heavy investigation:
Dear Sitecore Enthusiast,
You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the Sitecore Product Issues and Patches mailing list.
On Monday, August 4th, Microsoft released the following service packs: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1.
Sitecore has discovered that these [...]

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This is not official… but we’re investigating some issues with Sitecore and latest service pack. It seems like there’s an issue related to SQL Server.As we’re in progress of testing everything as it might be our internal computer configs. I’m not able to tell you anything except:
There’s an issue related to the access viewer and [...]

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My last entry about serializing items and whole databases was kind of more an introduction. Today I’m going to explain in detail what the ribbon buttons do. I’ll finish this series tomorrow by showing how to do this from code.

Serialize Item: This option let’s you serialize the currently selected item to disk. This means [...]

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In Sitecore 6 we’ve introduced an extremely cool functionality which is called serialization. You can identify this functionality in the ribbon interface:

Ok, cool Alex, but what’s the purpose of this functionality? We all know how hard it is to maintain different environments in a structured way. Most of the Sitecore partners are using a [...]

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