Escapades and exploits in the world of Sitecore and .NET
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It’s been long overdue but Sitecore have finally opened up their software downloads to the public. It used to be the case that you needed a Sitecore account tied to a certification in order to download the installation packages. I must admit I did used to find this puzzling as it seemed to place obstacles…
A small tale of caution when using Visual Studio 2019 and .NET Core – There is a bug present in the latest version whereby Visual Studio can unexpectedly ignore your environment variables with knock-on consequences. I recently upgraded my version of Visual Studio 2019 to the latest (16.6.2) in order to resolve an issue with…
A few months ago a client asked if I could upgrade their Sitecore 9.0 Update 1 real estate to the latest version 9.3. Sitecore upgrades always require a fair amount of due diligence, planning and attention to detail in execution. Unfortunately talk to anyone who has carried out a Sitecore upgrade before (especially one that…
When reading data from a .NET Core 3.0 API is much harder than it should be… Towards the end of last year I fired up a new ASP.NET Core 3.0 project for a client of mine as my first foray into building a real full .NET Core business application from end to end rather than…
A colleague recently asked me for advice on an issue he had whereby a fast query was not returning all the items from a particular folder in the content tree. Now leave aside for a minute the fact that fast query was being used dubiously (it was an ancient legacy part of the system with…
In my recent talk at Leeds Sitecore User Group this month, I demoed the Sitecore Publishing Service running in Docker and discussed how we can harness that for easy roll-out and migration to developers, through test environments and to the Cloud. What is Docker? Docker has really taken hold in the last few years with…