Back-End Development

I will be going over how you can export your local SQL Database to Azure SQL within SSMS. If you have not created your SQL server and database on Azure, here is a tutorial I found on Youtube that guides you through the process. Open your SQL Sever Management Studio and enter the Azure SQL […]

For an updated tutorial with GIFs, click here. We are going to be continuing from where we left off in the last post. If you are trying to follow along and want to take a look at how I set up the folder structure, click here. Overview Create a SQL server database project and configure the […]

With extensive program upgrades and technical improvements, many businesses are finding its time to upgrade from HCL V7 to the more recent version, HCL V9. We understand that upgrades to any system can be frustrating, extensive, and difficult to navigate, which is why partnering with HCL experts who can walk you through the migration and […]

If you are struggling to set up the web.config files upon hosting your web application, here is a solution to how you can configure your Web.Debug.config and Web.Release.config file so that your application runs dynamically on both the dev and prod environments.   Web.Config Leave the original web.config file as it is. Make sure you […]

If you have created your App Service on Azure but it redirects to a localhost instead of the Azure website URL upon authentication, there are some changes you will have to make in your Web.config file. In our example, we will be using Microsoft.Owin.Security.OpenIdConnect library for authentication (Azure AD). We are using .NET Framework 4.7.2 […]

Lazy loading images is a technique for modern web developers where you instruct the client’s browser to only download images as they are needed.  This leads to tremendous performance improvements, as client devices do not waste bandwidth downloading assets which are not being rendered.  To achieve this, we’ll use some client side mechanisms from css-tricks.com […]

This article explains the steps needed to set up Solr Cloud collections for your Sitecore environment using SearchStax. Assuming you already have Solr Cloud Manager Environment set in SearchStax, follow the below steps to set up the Solr Cloud environment. 1. Upload Solr Configurations The first step is to get the compatible Solr schema and […]

Last week I received a nasty bug report regarding Accessibility and Episerver.  Within Rich Text areas in Episerver, the file name is injected by default for alternate text.  This hurts your accessibility score and is a detrimental impact to visually impaired users.  Coincidentally, others in the community have written about and questioned how to solve […]

Click here for an updated post explained with GIFs. Now that we have the database in our SQL Server Project a DbContext, how do we pass the data to the view? We can construct asynchronous methods in a provider class to call the data in the controller. Before we move on, if you don’t have […]

Welcome to Part 2 of the tutorial! Now that we have the table, scripts, and post-deployment scripts from Part 1, we are going to publish the table to our local server, reverse engineer to create the Dbcontext, and add other components like providers and models (DTOs and View Models). Details Publish Database and Reverse Engineer […]

Recently, I came across a requirement from a client that needed all SVG media types to render using the internal XML <Path> in the DOM, rather than using the standard <Img> tag. This was a tricky one and there wasn’t very much information about how to accomplish this, as its not necessarily a common request. […]

In a comment on my previous post Apache Sling JVM Performance, Gil Tene made an insightful comment about the potential possibility of performance impact from speed from the underlying environment or other tests. To accommodate for this possibility, I re-ran the tests inside a loop, randomizing order of the JVM execution for each iteration 25 times. […]