Apropos Sitecore blog: March 2012

SUG notes: Automatic Sitecore Model Generation

By Kern Herskind Nightingale, 30 March 2012

I presented my model generation concept at this months Sitecore User Group in London and Bristol. For the benefit of everyone who attended I have put together a couple of links: My slides (if you saw the presentation in London - checkout slide no 8, it deals with the issue raised by Jason Bert of not getting compile errors from .aspx/.ascx files). You can get the source code from Sitecore's Github page. (if you are not into Git you… Read more ►

Sitecore 404 without 302

By Kern Herskind Nightingale, 27 March 2012

As I recently migrated the "Apropos Sitecore" blog from Typepad to Sitecore I put some effort in to setting up legacy URL rewriting. In case I missed anything I wanted to ensure that the 404 handling on the new blog was set up appropriately. I have always felt that the default way Sitecore handles 404 request was a bit annoying. If a users misspells a URL or perhaps misses out a couple of characters when copying a URL they will be redirected… Read more ►

Automatic Sitecore Model Generation

By Kern Herskind Nightingale, 15 March 2012

There are several model frameworks available for Sitecore. They all have their strengths and weaknesses – but common for all of them are that they represent Sitecore items as strongly typed objects in code. My motivation for creating what one guy at Sitecore User Group London described as “yet another model generation framework” was not to invent a new way of composing strongly typed objects. It was an attempt to introduce an alternative… Read more ►