Posts Tagged ‘.net’

We recently upgraded one of our clients from Sitecore 8.0 to Sitecore 8.1 and had to upgrade to Web Forms for Marketers 8.1 rev. 160304 as part of the upgrade. After upgrading WFFM, all of our forms started to throw the following exception: The controller for path ‘{{form path}}’ could not be found. The project has a custom Controller Factory that uses […]

I recently ran into an interesting issue when developing a connector for a third-party API. When trying to connect to the API endpoint, I received the following error message: “An error occurred while making the HTTP request to https://<API endpoint>. This could be due to the fact that the server certificate is not configured properly […]

I find that many of the components I develop in Sitecore need custom markup in the Experience Editor that shouldn’t be present on the live site. Although it’s possible to add this custom markup into my components’ views with @if (Sitecore.Context.PageMode.IsExperienceEditor), I prefer to keep branching logic out of my views as much as possible. Fortunately […]

Coveo released version 4 of their Coveo for Sitecore product today and we’re all very excited about this new release. We’ve been very impressed with the Coveo product as it brings enterprise-grade search capabilities to Sitecore as well as provide a bevy of connectors to other platforms. With this new release, Coveo has made a […]

Sitecore 8 introduced a new Explore Mode option to the Experience Editor that allows content authors to test their digital marketing strategy by simulating visits to their site as different users. One feature that has been particularly useful for me is the ability to simulate different IP addresses to test GeoIP integration in components I’m […]

In my previous post, GEOIP – Getting Started, I mentioned that I would illustrate how to actually use the GeoIP components, and here it is! I’ll start with a personalization example. For this example we have a tab component that will have content specified for different US states. When a visitor comes to the site from Georgia, […]

A couple of days ago I accidentally removed broken links in the Core database of a new Sitecore instance using the Remove Broken Links tool at http://{your-sitecore-url}/sitecore/admin/RemoveBrokenLinks.aspx. The next time I logged into Sitecore, I got the following exception: After some digging around I found that the Remove Broken Links tool erroneously deleted the Model property of the ExperienceAnalyticsLineChart […]

GeoIP is quickly becoming a necessity for the analytics functionality of Sitecore. With GeoIP we can personalize content based on the user’s location to present the most relative information and provide a more engaging user experience. Starting with Sitecore 8.1, the necessary config files and dlls are included in the base install. Prior to 8.1, […]

Recently I was working on a contact form using Sitecore’s Web Forms for Marketers (WFFM) module and came across an instance that didn’t quite work out-of-the-box as I would expect. Some background on the Sitecore instance before I get into the rest of the details. Sitecore version is 8 update 4 (rev. 150621) and the […]

The previous article in this series covered how to define database Connection Strings for an App Service Web App within an ARM Template. This article will continue to build on the foundation of deploying a Web App using an ARM Template by exploring how to define Application Settings (aka appSettings) for an App Service Web […]

“Unhandled exception” is not something that makes people happy. If this exception suddenly appears and crashes your beautiful Sitecore site, first you probably feel surprise, then fear and finally panic. If you are reading this article, I assume you are done with the first part and now want to know how to fix it.

Previous articles covered what Azure Resource Manager is, along with how to setup an Azure Resource Group project within Visual Studio 2015 to deploy an ASP.NET Web Application to Azure as an App Service Web App. Being able to deploy an application to Azure is just the first step. In order to really use ARM […]