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Transform Your Sitecore Config Patches Using Build Targets

Jeff, 18.11.2016

A Sitecore config patch that is environment-server-specific will definitely require different versions, therefore, config transformation is necessary to avoid manual modification. Though, by default, transformation is only supported for the Web.config file there are many tools available that will help you achieve this. However, most of them require that your config transforms do not go beyond the limits of your configurations.

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Track Client-side Events in Sitecore MVC

Jeff, 10.08.2016

Tracking events triggered on your site is obviously of vital importance to measure your visitors' behaviour and level of engagement. Sitecore does a good job of tracking events associated to a page that are triggered upon page visit - but in reality, we are more concerned about tracking client-side events especially since almost everything happens on the client-side these days due to the emergence of JavaScript frameworks like Angular and Ember.

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Query Sitecore Items in Web API

Jeff, 15.04.2016

Building client-side web apps is the new trend, which means a lot of XHR requests to the back-end. Luckily, Sitecore provides a highly configurable Item Web API to help you with querying items from the client-side. But if you want results that are bound to your models and end-points not containing your query, then you will resort to querying items against the context database using ASP.Net Web API... only that... it doesn't work out of the box.

Sitecore Software Development

Rendering Sublayouts in Sitecore MVC

Jeff, 29.12.2015

There's no denying that Web Forms is dying and MVC has taken its place... at least in my opinion. The Sitecore guys know it, and it's evident that there has been a major shift to the latter. If you're starting out as a Sitecore developer chances are you're gonna start with MVC. But what if you've already started with Web Forms and want to do the transition without giving up your precious sublayouts just yet?

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Mocking Sitecore using MS Fakes

Jeff, 10.12.2015

Mocking Sitecore has been a tough nut to crack since Sitecore lacks the necessary interfaces that common mocking frameworks need, which really screws up automated testing for a lot of us. For that we turn to isolation frameworks like TypeMock and Justmock which unfortunately come with a huge price tag.

Sitecore Software Development