Mark's Sitecore Blog

Experiences with Glass Cache

In version 4, Glass Mapper introduced a caching mechanism to speed up access to mapped objects. Basically, once an object is mapped, it is stored in Glass Cache which by default utilizes HttpCache in Memory. The next time the same object…

By Mark | November 2, 2015 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments |

Custom FxCop Ruleset for Sitecore

Recently, my Co-Worker Daniel and I were allowed to present our way of ensuring code-quality using Sonar and custom Sitecore FxCop rules at the first Swiss Sitecore User Group. Our solution is based on the shared source module of Johannes…

By Mark | November 10, 2014 | Uncategorized | No Comments |

Failing DNS lookups slowing down site after upgrade

I ran into a problem today while setting up a content delivery server after upgrading from Sitecore 6.4 to 7.2. After setting everything up, the site ran very slowly and the Sitecore Log started filling with exceptions like this: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException:…

By Mark | November 4, 2014 | Uncategorized | No Comments |

Web Forms For Marketers meets Sitecore DMS

I’ve had the chance lately to dive into some more advanced features of the Web Forms for Marketers Module in combination with Sitecore DMS. This blog post shows some of the advanced possibilities you have using WFFM in combination with…

By Mark | August 9, 2014 | DMS | No Comments |

Duplicate entries in custom index on incremental update

I’ve had a problem with a custom index some time ago. Entries were showing up multiple times when doing incremental updates of the index i.E. when saving an item. The only thing that would clean up the index again would…

By Mark | August 9, 2014 | ContentSearch | No Comments |

Understanding Sitecore DMS Campaign triggering

Sitecore DMS allows you to launch and track Campaigns. You can set up Campaigns inside Marketing Center. Check the Marketing Operations Cookbook on SDN for more detail on that. Make sure you deploy your Campaigns by clicking Deploy in the…

By Mark | July 13, 2014 | DMS | 4 Comments |

PublishAgent skipping all items when CheckSecurity is activated

We ran into an issue when trying to publish the entire site on a regular basis using PublishAgent. We have it set up to publish the entire site every hour. <agent type=”Sitecore.Tasks.PublishAgent” method=”Run” interval=”01:00:00″> <param desc=”source database”>master</param> <param desc=”target database”>web</param>…

By Mark | July 10, 2014 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment |

Use System.Boolean when indexing checkbox fields

I faced the issue that checkbox values were not being updated in the index correctly. When I unchecked a checkbox and saved, the index would still have “1” stored as value for my field. To prevent this issue, use Sytem.Boolean…

By Mark | June 27, 2014 | ContentSearch | 2 Comments |

Sitecore Start Menu Shortcuts not showing

We noticed, that it is not possible to create Application Shortcuts anymore in SC 7.2. All our newly created shortcuts wouldn’t be displayed, while old shortcuts were visible. The reason for this lies in the changed raw value inside of…

By Mark | June 26, 2014 | Administration | 2 Comments |

View running Sitecore background jobs

I’ve created a very simple but useful admin page recently that shows all background jobs (indexing, publishing etc.) currently running on the Sitecore instance. So if you’re ever wondering why the instance is running slow or why jobs are being…

By Mark | June 11, 2014 | Administration | 1 Comment |