Category Archives: .net

SHA256 hashing email addresses for GDPR reasons

Posted on August 10, 2018 by

This is a followup on the previous post C# Mask email address for GDPR reasons, where user Inspector Cluedget pointed out that masking (replacing characters with *) an email address in the log file is the least safest of the data masking … Continue reading →

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C# Mask email address for GDPR reasons

Posted on August 7, 2018 by

UPDATE 2018-08-10: See this post SHA256 hashing email addresses for GDPR reasons for an even better masking approcah. Thanks to Inspector Cluedget for the tip. This is a C# extension method that will mask your email address following this pattern: If it’s … Continue reading →

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Sitecore and WebApi

Posted on June 22, 2018 by

So you have some legacy WebApi code that needs to run in your Sitecore solution? Or are just just a WebApi expert and need to use your favorite tool in the toolbox? Fear not, WebApi will run fine in your … Continue reading →

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Creating dynamic arrays and lists using Dynamic and ExpandoObject in C#

Posted on May 30, 2018 by

In this previous post, C# Using Newtonsoft and dynamic ExpandoObject to convert one Json to another, I described how you can use the dynamic keyword and the ExpandoObject class to quickly transform JSON without the need for any concrete implementations of … Continue reading →

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Sitecore 9 Configuration not available on Dependency Injection – LockRecursionException: Recursive upgradeable lock acquisitions not allowed in this mode

Posted on March 23, 2018 by

Form Sitecore 8.2, Sitecore have implemented Dependency Injection for their own classes. Sitecore uses Microsoft’s Dependency Injection library. Sitecore uses dependency injection to inject many things, including configurations. Therefore, you cannot access configuration before after your code have been injected. … Continue reading →

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Using C# HttpClient from Sync and Async code

Posted on November 3, 2017 by

The .NEt 4.5 C# System.Net.Http.HttpClient() is a very nice http client implementation, but can be tricky to use if you (like me) are not a trained asynchronous programming coder. So here is a quick cheat sheet on how to work … Continue reading →

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Sitecore Rule – Personalize based on any field in any facet in your Contact

Posted on September 29, 2017 by

This Sitecore Personalization Rule was developed by my colleague Martin Rygaard with the purpose of being able to personalize on any field in any facet on a contact. STEP 1: CREATE THE CONDITION Create a new “Condition” below /sitecore/system/Settings/Rules/Definitions/Elements/??? The text … Continue reading →

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.NET Session state is not thread safe

Posted on September 22, 2017 by

When working with the .NET session state you should bear in mind that the HttpContext.Current.Session cannot be transferred to another thread. Imagine that you, from the Global.asax would like to read the SessionID each time a session is started: To … 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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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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