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Category Archives: c#
Sitecore ContentSearch – Get items from SOLR or Lucene – A base class implementation
Reading items from Sitecore is pretty straight forward: And it is fast, unless you need to retrieve items from many paths, or need to retrieve every child of a certain base class. In these situations you resolve to using the … Continue reading
Posted in .net, c#, General .NET, Sitecore 7, Sitecore 8
Tagged ContentSearch, ContentSearchManager, index, Lucene, search, Sitecore, SOLR
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Sitecore user:created event not fired on Membership.CreateUser
Sitecore have since 7.5’ish fired events each time you manipulate the users in the .NET Membership database: But I noticed that the user:created event was not fired. This is because I call the .NET Membership provider directly: This call to … Continue reading
Posted in .net, c#, General .NET, Sitecore 7, Sitecore 8
Tagged Event, Membership, roles:usersAdded, roles:usersRemoved, Sitecore, SitecoreMembershipProvider, user:created, user:deleted, user:updated
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Sitecore ContentSearch Get Latest Version
The Sitecore ContentSearch API allows you to index content in either .NET Lucene or SOLR, dramatically speeding up retrieval of content, especially when querying items that are scattered across your content tree. Content retrieved from the ContentSearch API is not … Continue reading
Posted in .net, c#, General .NET, Sitecore 7, Sitecore 8
Tagged ContentSearch, index, Lucene, Sitecore, SOLR, _latestversion
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Sitecore Caching – Clear caches individually
The Sitecore caching engine is a simple yet powerful tool where Sitecore not only stores it’s own data for fast retrieval, but allows you to store your own data of any kind. Sitecore have a built in overview of the … Continue reading
Sitecore and Feature Flags using LaunchDarkly
Feature flags are a software development best practice of gating functionality. Functionality can be deployed “off”, then turned on via the feature flag, separate from deployment. With feature flags, you can manage the entire lifecycle of a feature. Launchdarkly.com In … Continue reading
Posted in c#, General .NET, Sitecore, Sitecore 8
Tagged Feature flag, Feature toggle, Launchdarkly, Personalization, Sitecore
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Get Sitecore System Info
Would you like to know the System Info of your current Sitecore instance: It’s fairly easy. I created an SysInfo.aspx page and dumped in into the /sitecore modules/shell folder. The page is now available on the URL <yourwebsite>/sitecore modules/shell/sysinfo.aspx. The … Continue reading
Posted in c#, General .NET, Sitecore 5, Sitecore 6, Sitecore 7, Sitecore 8
Tagged Configuration, Sitecore
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Send email via SparkPost and C#
SparkPost is yet another email service. It is easy to work with, seems robust, and it will be fairly easy on your client’s budget, as you get 100.000 emails per month for free (as per jan 2017). A SparkPost email … Continue reading
Sitecore custom cache that is cleared on publish
In this article I will demonstrate how to create a custom Sitecore cache and how to ensure that it is cleared when you publish. First I will create the simplest custom cache available: The cache is instantiated with a name, … Continue reading
Posted in c#, General .NET, Sitecore 6, Sitecore 7, Sitecore 8
Tagged CacheManager, CustomCache, Publish, publish:complete, publish:complete:remote, publish:end, publish:end:remote, Sitecore
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Sitecore General error when submitting contact – Another contact with the same identifier already exists
In Sitecore when creating your own contacts you can get the following exception: 10604 10:16:27 ERROR General error when submitting contact. Exception: System.InvalidOperationException Message: Another contact with the same identifier already exists. Source: Sitecore.Analytics.MongoDB at Sitecore.Analytics.Data.DataAccess.MongoDb.MongoDbDataAdapterProvider.SaveContactWithIdentifier(IContact contact, ContactSaveOptions saveOptions) at … Continue reading
Posted in .net, c#, General .NET, Sitecore 8
Tagged Contact, ContactManager, ContactRepository, MongoDB, Sitecore, xDB
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Sitecore Advanced Configuration in .config files
Sitecore allows you to create configuration sections in /configuration/sitecore/ that consists of hierarchies of configurations including lists, and it will even help you serialize the configuration to object instances. Observe the following real life example of a configuration I created to … Continue reading
Posted in .net, c#, General .NET, Sitecore, Sitecore 5, Sitecore 6, Sitecore 7, Sitecore 8
Tagged Configuration, GetConfigNode, hint, Sitecore, XmlNode
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