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Bucket Folder Path Resolution Allows Inheritance

SXA allows you to configure bucket folder path rules on your multisite Settings item, for example /sitecore/Content/(tenant)/(site)/Settings in the "Rules for Resolving the Bucket Folder Path" field. We had a list of rules - one for each of the bucket folders that we're using to store

Sitecore

Show Pipeline Batch Status

We were running a series of data importing jobs and wanted to show the count of items in the pipeline status dialog: The Show Pipeline Batch Status command is available when a Pipeline Batch item (under /sitecore/System/Data Exchange/(provider)/Pipeline Batches/) is selected and is currently running. Our

.NET

Blank lines in files generated by T4 templates

Why does my T4 text template (.tt) generate a code file full of empty lines?

Sitecore

Refactoring out SheerResponse calls in Sitecore 8+

Sheer UI was deprecated in Sitecore 8 and has been replaced by the SPEAK framework. Calls to the SheerResponse class should be remapped to the ClientResponse class, for example: Sitecore.Web.UI.Sheer.SheerResponse.Alert("Invalid user."); becomes Context.ClientPage.ClientResponse.Alert("Invalid user.");

.NET

Making legacy Unity code a bit more testable

A current project I'm working on uses Unity to do dependency injection which has created a little bit of a challenge. Much of this code was architected and built several years ago, and generally follows a repository/DAO pattern where: A static InjectionContainer class holds a reference to our UnityContainer.

.NET

ViewState is not always your enemy

I had to support a legacy Web Forms application and while in the process of cleaning up several existing UserControls I had to explain to another developer exactly why using the ViewState to store custom properties wasn't worse than the current solution - which was, on every page load, setting

Sitecore

Fast session timeouts and Sitecore robot detection

Unfortunately I've seen this issue in two different projects over the last few years. Sitecore uses a visitor identification sublayout to determine whether a site visitor is a bot or an actual human visitor. If you are a bot, your session times out much faster (1 minute, by default) than

Sitecore

Clearing a custom delivery server cache on publish

We have a non-Sitecore custom cache (which follows identical rules on both delivery servers and the authoring server) responsible for building up a hierarchy that is derived from a combination of Sitecore items and data in a custom database. The only trigger that can invalidate this cache is if the

Sitecore

Sitecore 8 DateFields are now UTC

After upgrading from Sitecore 7 to Sitecore 8 we started to notice that some of the dates shown across our site (in the format "22 Feb 2016") were showing a date one day earlier than expected. This date is pulled from a DateField on the item in Sitecore, and stepping

.NET

Testing non-public methods from another project

I had a few methods in a project that implemented some business logic that I wanted to be able to test from another project, but that weren't public. So how can I test them? Well... A testable method should be relatively self-contained. It should take a set of inputs and