Building extension-less Urls in Sitecore
Our goal here is to build a Sitecore solution having links without the .aspx extension.(although accessing a page with a .aspx extension should STILL work)To start ,you needA LOT OF PATIENCEHelicon...
View ArticleBold style for matching results with AutoCompleteExtender - Implemented using...
This article will focus on the implementation of the AjaxControlToolkit's AutoCompleteExtender into a simple ASP.NET application. What I'm trying to do here is pull the data from a database and use the...
View ArticleRetrieving the DATA folder installation path from MS SQL Server using T/SQL
This would be useful for creating databases using SQL scripts. The SQL query below returns the installation path of the DATA folder for the installed SQL Server.SQL Script DECLARE @device_directory...
View ArticleRegistering XSLT Extension Objects with the ASP XML control
I once inherited a sublayout that inlcuded an asp:xml control. The asp:xml control was there to handle and display an xml feed from another system, while the rest of the sublayout concentrated on...
View ArticlePlaying God with Windows 7
This is going to be a quick one.To enable "GodMode" on Windows 7, create a folder on your desktop and rename it to the following:GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}The icon for the folder...
View ArticleIndexing PDF documents with Lucene and Sitecore
Getting Lucene to index pdf document is a doddle, thanks to the document published on SDN. if you follow the instructions to the letter, you will be able to make Lucene index pdf documents in no...
View ArticleListView with DataPager problem in .Net 4
I wanted to set the QueryStringField property of the DataPager dynamically. By default, if you do not specify this property, the pager works on a Postback Model.On the other hand, if you do set the...
View ArticleMissing Icons in Page Edit Mode in Sitecore 6.1
I remember, back in the days when I was using Sitecore 6 in Page Edit mode, an blue arrow would highlight the placeholders on the page when I would hover the placeholder name in the in Design Pane.Now...
View ArticleIIS 7.5 Logging with Sitecore 6.x in Integrated Pipeline Mode
When you run Sitecore 6.x in Integrated Pipeline Mode, You will notice that ALL IIS log entries contain the log entry for the resquest to the layout (aspx) page (instead of the actual sitecore item...
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