[su_note note_color=”#fafafa”]Now available in the Sitecore Marketplace[/su_note] Intro Here at BrainJocks we have recently built two custom field types for Sitecore – Geo Location and YouTube Video. Both fields are “picker” fields with custom controls for Content Editor and Page Editor. Sitecore Marketplace has a few relevant downloads (at least for the location picker) but […]
Back-End Development
A Tale of three friends. Close look at three Sitecore pipelines.
A Tale Of Three Friends Once upon a time there lived three friends – Copy, Clone, and Duplicate. Copy and Duplicate were almost identical twins but they didn’t get along very well. Duplicate was lazy and everything he could delegate he would ask Copy to do. Copy has always been a good guy and would […]
A Note about App_ConfigInclude and Anti CSRF
YSOD You don’t delete contents of your App_ConfigInclude. You just don’t, right? It’s not something people normally do. Well, I first did and then I forgot that I did while I was playing with cleaning up after TDS’s File Replacement. I then left for the day and the next day my local Sitecore sandbox wouldn’t […]
Clean up after TDS File Replacement
If you are developing with Sitecore you are probably using TDS. If you are not then you are clearly missing out. You may as well stop reading this post and go check it out first. File Replacement Residue We have posted previously on how to set up your Sitecore solution with TDS and how to […]
A Note About Custom Validators for MVC with Sitecore
In a post about creating editable labels in Sitecore from John West, he points out a technique to allow a developer to use annotations within your MVC model to attach “fields” within the context item that would be used to label form fields. The same technique can be used to power custom validators with editable error […]
Customizing the model within Sitecore MVC
In Sitecore, the MVC framework provides a “default” model type that does some very necessary work. To support the view, Sitecore’s default model type Sitecore.Mvc.Presentation.RenderingModel provides you access to The “current” item – passed via a datasource or the context item if no datasource is used The PageContext item (which may be different if a […]
Creating a quick admin script to run within Sitecore
Not exactly the most glorious post for the first from our Sitecore blog, but nevertheless, the team asked for it so here it is. There are occasions where a developer needs to create some simple page to run “against” items contained within a Sitecore database. This can be used to modify items in the content […]