Category Archives: Sitecore 9

Sitecore The type or namespace name ‘Job’ does not exist in the namespace ‘Sitecore.Jobs’ (are you missing an assembly reference?)

Posted on March 30, 2023 by briancaos

From Sitecore 9.0 to Sitecore 9.2, Sitecore updated the Jobs namespace: This resonates with the Sitecore structural changes where Sitecore implements abstractions for most of their code. This change began all the way back in Sitecore 7.5 and makes it … Continue reading →

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Sitecore TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation

Posted on February 23, 2023 by briancaos

You are probably upgrading some packages in your Sitecore instance, but instead of success and glory, you are greeted with the following error message: The real reason for the error is hidden because Counters are enabled. To see the actual … Continue reading →

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Could not load file or assembly ‘System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource, Version=4.0.4.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified

Posted on February 13, 2023 by briancaos

The following error may occur when upgrading Microsoft ApplicationInsights: [FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly ‘System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource, Version=4.0.4.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.]Microsoft.AspNet.TelemetryCorrelation.TelemetryCorrelationHttpModule.Application_BeginRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e) +0System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +142System.Web.<>c__DisplayClass285_0.b__0() +38System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStepImpl(IExecutionStep step) +11857717System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep … Continue reading →

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Sitecore SOLR Search in multiselect lists fails unless you add the field to the defaultSolrIndexConfiguration config

Posted on December 21, 2022 by briancaos

So I have this multiselect field in Sitecore: The field is a treelist field, but this article works for all multiselect fields, treelist, checklist, multilist, etc. So how do you return the field as a list of Sitecore ID’s from … Continue reading →

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Sitecore Create Fully Qualified Url

Posted on September 9, 2022 by briancaos

A classic issue in Sitecore: Some code running in one Site Context is creating a link to a page in another context, and the link turns out to be complete garbage. For example, this code is running in the modules_shell … Continue reading →

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Sitecore create custom Content Editor Warnings using Conditions and Rules

Posted on January 21, 2022 by briancaos

The Content Editor Warnings are these yellow boxes that hover over your content in the Content Editor in Sitecore: In the old days we would make them by hooking into the getContentEditorWarnings pipeline. Nowadays we use the Sitecore Rules engine. … Continue reading →

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Sitecore poor Index Update performance linked to missing Index in the Links database

Posted on January 17, 2022 by briancaos

Suddenly my index updates took forever to finish. I mean, one index update would take 2 minutes. And I have a lot of index updates. A lot. UPDATE: 2022-01-19: Sitecore have suggested the same changes to the links database in … Continue reading →

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Sitecore high CPU usage – is the SQL Session State Provider the villain?

Posted on November 25, 2021 by briancaos

My massive Sitecore 9.1 installation started having CPU spikes, even when the servers did not seem to receive more requests. When CPU spiked, I could see that the requests queue would build up, until it crashed with the following error: … Continue reading →

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Why Sitecore Composable DXP is great news for developers and consultants

Posted on October 22, 2021 by briancaos

Sitecore announced that they will embrace the Composable DXP approach. DXP is, according to Gartner: A digital experience platform (DXP) is an integrated set of core technologies that support the composition, management, delivery and optimization of contextualized digital experiences. Gartner … Continue reading →

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