Proposal for Sitecore.Services.Client and Web API in Sitecore
In this post I’m going to dive into how the infrastructure for Sitecore.Services.Client is implemented and how it overrides many defaults in ASP.NET Web API ...
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2016
Web API error in Sitecore 8.1 Update-2 on CD-servers
This post describes a problem with Web API in Sitecore 8.1 Update-2, causing all Web API controllers to return “An error has occurred.” error message on CD-s...
SiteContext.GetWebSiteUrl() - Hidden use of ContentDatabase
I was recently looking at Sitecore composite components by Chris van de Steeg. It’s a great and useful concept which he explains well. I grabbed his implemen...
Disable Sitecore filters for Web API controllers
I have previously written about how easy it to implement Web API controllers in Sitecore. However since Sitecore adds a lot of global filters for authorizati...
2015
Web API controller with async/await in Sitecore 8
So you want to create Web API controllers in a Sitecore 8 solution? Use Sitecore.Services.Infrastructure.Web.Http.ServicesApiController and add Sitecore.Serv...
Resize media image stream in Sitecore
When working with MediaItems in Sitecore you might want to direct access to a stream behind the media item. On the a Sitecore.Data.Items.MediaItem you can ca...
2014
Fixing Sitecore Fast Query - querying by field ID
Sitecore Fast Query is a XPath like query syntax for retrieving and filtering items from the Sitecore database, which uses the database engine to execute que...
Sitecore debugging with dotPeek
Jetbrains dotPeek tool can act as a symbol server for Visual Studio. Read about how to set it up on their excellent webhelp. Now leave dotPeek running and at...
2012
MVC REST services in Umbraco 4
Create a Global.asax file for your Umbraco project. In the Application_Start method register the MVC routes: [csharp] protected void Application_Start() { Ro...
2011
Setting Content-Type in an Umbraco /Base service
The Umbraco /Base system is great for creating simple REST-like services. You can use the RestExtensionMethod attribute to instruct Umbraco to return your re...
2009
Nested Set in Propel 1.3
I’m currently working on a Symfony project with a lot of hierarchical data. For this I have taken advance of the new Nested Set implementation in Propel 1.3....