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  • TDS code generation source code on GitHub

    By Kern Herskind Nightingale, 14 November 2012,

    I have added updated my code generation PoC files on GitHub. I have also created a repository with TDS v.4 code generation T4 templates if anyone is interested in those. Read more ►

  • AWS CloudFront - now with query string support

    By Kern Herskind Nightingale, 26 October 2012,

    Great news - or should I say old news!? Apparently Amazon CloudFront have added support for query string forwarding for custom origin distributions. This feature was announced approximately two weeks after I had written this lengthy blog post on how to mitigate this deficiency when using CloudFront and Sitecore with dynamic media URLs. With the introduction of query string forwarding you can you can drop all the rewriting and just set… Read more ►

  • Sitecore 6.6 (technology preview) and MVC 4

    By Kern Herskind Nightingale, 02 October 2012,

    Disclaimer: This is not tested thoroughly and I have only posted here for the benefit of people experimenting with MVC and Sitecore 6.6 technology preview. I know there is no official MVC 4 support in the technology preview but I was looking at the upgrade path for a pure MVC application from MVC 3 to MVC 4 and it seemed almost to easy - here is what the ASP.NET team says you need to do: Upgrading an ASP.NET MVC 3 project to MVC 4.  I… Read more ►

  • Sitecore item paths with IntelliSense (auto-generated)

    By Kern Herskind Nightingale, 21 May 2012,

    A while ago I presented my Sitecore model auto-generation concept to Sitecore’s UK User Group. One of the perspectives I mentioned in my presentation was using the technique to generate item paths. The idea was that this would eliminate a lot of the magic strings representing paths and IDs. My initial thought was to generate a list of constants that could be used in conjunction with the item factory. Before I ever got started on this… Read more ►

  • Auto-generating a Glass model with TDS and T4

    By Kern Herskind Nightingale, 09 May 2012,

    I just read a great blog post by Mike Edwards on using the T4/TDS auto-generation framework to generate a Glass model for Sitecore. This example really shows how versatile the concept is and how it can be used to generate any model for Sitecore: http://www.glass.lu/?page_id=590 Also: Hedgehog recently announced that TDS v4 will have support for T4 code generation - so hopefully we can soon say bye bye to the clunky post… Read more ►

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