Category Archives: .net

Sitecore use item:deleting event to avoid deletion of items

Posted on January 3, 2020 by

The Sitecore extendable model allows you to build business rules into your Sitecore solution. This is an example where I disallow deletion of certain items when a certain business rule is true. This pattern could be implemented using a field … Continue reading →

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Sitecore use global and environment variables in config files

Posted on November 15, 2019 by

The Sitecore config files are a complex machine and it requires a healthy mind to work with it. Fortunately Sitecore have implemented a few tricks to ease our pain. This article focuses on 2 parts: global variable replacement and environment … Continue reading →

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.NET Core API and CORS – allow POST from Javascript using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Cors

Posted on October 30, 2019 by

After hours of debugging, I finally managed to apply CORS correctly to my .NET Core 3.0 Application. Like so many other before me, I used this article as reference: Enable Cross-Origin Requests (CORS) in ASP.NET Core But I still managed … Continue reading →

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Because this call is not awaited, execution of the current method continues before the call is completed. Consider applying the ‘await’ operator to the result of the call

Posted on October 23, 2019 by

This C# warning occurs if you call an async method from your non-async code. Imagine you have this imaginary async method: And you call the method from this imaginary non-async method: The compiler will warn you with the following message: … Continue reading →

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.NET Core MVC Web API – control DateTime format in JSON output using JsonSerializerOptions

Posted on October 15, 2019 by

When creating API’s with .NET Core MVC, you can control the JSON output by adding JsonOptions to the controllers: This will ensure that when requesting application/json from a GET method, the format returned is JSON. You can then add Converters … Continue reading →

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Sitecore Publish Items using the PublishManager

Posted on September 13, 2019 by

Sitecore have two entries to publishing: Create a new Publisher and call Publish() or PublishAsync() Use the Sitecore.Publishing.PublishManager You should use the PublishManager. Sitecore introduced the Publishing Service which is an optional external publisher that is much faster than the … Continue reading →

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Sitecore publish certain items on save

Posted on September 6, 2019 by

My Sitecore solution have some items, where changes to certain fields are so critical that they need to be published immediately. So when my user presses the Save button, I will open a popup dialog, asking if I should publish … Continue reading →

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C# HttpClient POST or PUT Json with content type application/json

Posted on August 28, 2019 by

The HttpClient is a nifty tool for getting and sending data to a URL, but it works differently from the old fashioned WebRequest class. The content type is added to the post data instead of added as a header parameter. … Continue reading →

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C# Newtonsoft serialize property that is an array and a string

Posted on August 26, 2019 by

IdentityServer4 has a strange way of returning roles. If there is only one role, the property is a string: But if there is more than one role, the property is an array of strings: If the property is a string, … Continue reading →

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Which of my old Sitecore posts are still valid in Sitecore 9?

Posted on August 23, 2019 by

I have been writing Sitecore blog posts since April 2006. The first ones were for Sitecore 4.2. Now, 13 years later, some of the old posts are still valid, while others are obsolete as the Sitecore API have changed. But … Continue reading →

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