Category Archives: c#

Sitecore Scheduled Task – Schedule time format and other quirks

Posted on August 18, 2017 by

The Sitecore task runner, usually called Scheduled Tasks, is a simple way of executing code with intervals. You configure scheduled tasks in Sitecore, at /sitecore/system/Tasks/Schedules: The quirkiest configuration setting is the “Schedule” field, which is a pipe separated string determining when … Continue reading →

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Webhook Event Receiver with Azure Functions

Posted on August 4, 2017 by

Microsoft Azure Functions is a solution to run small pieces of code in the cloud. If your code is very small and have only one purpose, an Azure Function could be the cost effective solution. This is an example of … Continue reading →

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Requesting Azure API Management URL’s

Posted on July 28, 2017 by

The Azure API Management is a scalable and secure API gateway/proxy/cache where you can expose your API’s externally and still have secure access. In Azure API Management you create a “Product” which is a collection of API’s that is protected … Continue reading →

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Sitecore ContentSearch – Get items from SOLR or Lucene – A base class implementation

Posted on June 9, 2017 by

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 →

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Sitecore user:created event not fired on Membership.CreateUser

Posted on June 1, 2017 by

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 →

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Sitecore ContentSearch Get Latest Version

Posted on May 5, 2017 by

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 →

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Sitecore Caching – Clear caches individually

Posted on May 1, 2017 by

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 →

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Sitecore and Feature Flags using LaunchDarkly

Posted on March 31, 2017 by

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 →

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Get Sitecore System Info

Posted on January 20, 2017 by

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 →

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Send email via SparkPost and C#

Posted on January 6, 2017 by

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 →

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