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Web Forms for Marketers - Database Configuration

This is more of a 'note to self' type post, but I am sure some may find it helpful... When you install " Web Forms for Marketers v2 " it configures itself to use SQLLite. It provides a sample configuration on how to use SQL server, but...

My Sitecore Development Environment

This post if mainly in response to a question that was asked, and subsequent tweet , during my session at Dreamcore 2010. The shortened version of the question was essentially: How do I debug? The answer I gave was that I "Attach to the W3WP Process...

Sitecore friendly html, css and javascript

Disclaimer: While some of these guidelines may be applied to other Content Management Systems, or .net web forms in general, this is based on my experience with Sitecore. A common approach of having a CMS based web site implemented usually goes as follows...

Sitecore's Webforms for Marketers (v2) Language Specific DropList

Sitecore's Webforms for Marketers (v2) module is pretty impressive out of the gate. There was an issue, however, with a recent project that had a few different languages. We needed a Droplist in the form that showed a list of items from Sitecore and...

Sitecore's Webforms for Marketers (v2) Gotchas

I've recently been doing some work with the Web Forms for Marketers (2.0) module and I must say I was presently surprised! The first version of this module was a rather good first pass, but it typically came up short when we wanted to use it. Version...

Simple 404 with Sitecore

404's in Sitecore can be very simple or extremely complicated with site independent designs and functionality. While a blog post on the later would be a worthwhile blog post, this post will cover a very simple example of how to set the StatusCode...

Coveo with Sitecore Media

Out of the box, Coveo does a pretty good job of crawling your website and providing search capabilities. In this particular installation we aren't using the "Sitecore connector" we are simply letting coveo do its thing walking the site....

Sitecore FieldRenderer Control and OverrideFieldValue

The FieldRenderer Control (Sitecore.Web.UI.WebControls.FieldRenderer) has a method called OverrideFieldValue that takes a string and is supposed to be shown instead of the real fields value, but it doesn't work. It seems a fix would be to add in a...

Editors, Sitecore, and SEO

Editors (and some sysadmins) that have been around IIS web sites for a few years seem to have a little trouble grasping what Sitecore can do for them. More specifically, they have trouble grasping what it is they don't need to do anymore! In the purest...

Sitecore Diagrams Part 2

We have been doing some pretty fun work with Sitecore 6 here at Hedgehog Development ... I started doing some work with Sitecore Template Diagrams a while back and I got to talking with some colleagues and we decided to take this to another level. While...

Sitecore Template Diagrams

With Sitecore templates, unlike C#, you are allowed to inherit from multiple bases. This allows Sitecore developers to be extremely flexible in their implementations, but as with most applications, flexibility adds complexity. My current Sitecore project...

Sitecore REST API Service

If you are a Sitecore developer, go search the Sitecore Developer Network (SDN) for "REST" and tell me what you find. Nothing. Anyone who develops with Sitecore knows that documentation is lacking, but shouldn't this be something worth mentioning...

Sitecore Renderings when item is no longer published

This is more of a note to self post... I was creating a Sitecore (5.3.1) XSL rendering and I was looping over items. I noticed, however, that when one of those items is no longer published it was still looping through it! What you need to do it change...
Sean Kearney
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