Apropos Sitecore blog: Sitecore 6.5

Visual List Sitecore Shared Source contribution

By Kern Herskind Nightingale, 16 April 2012

On a recent project I used the Visual List field from the Sitecore Shared Source repository. The FieldTypes project has been around for a while so I was surprised to find that the field type was missing support for languages and item versions and had poor integration with the Content Editor's field validation facility. There are no other means of maintaining a list of images in Sitecore that offers the same degree of usability for… Read more ►

Sitecore authentication with WIF

By Kern Herskind Nightingale, 12 April 2012

I was recently asked by my friends over at Confused.com to look into using Windows Identity Foundation to do claims based authentication for Sitecore. WIF comes pre-packed with all you need to do federated security and you can use the components either as they are or customise them to meet your specific requirements. WIF integrates nicely with ASP.Net and most websites could easily be adapted to use Passive STS for authentication. Unfortunatel… 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 ►

Removing Sitecore configuration elements via include files

By Kern Herskind Nightingale, 26 July 2011

After a recent discussion on the SDN forum I thought it would be worth mentioning that it is possible to remove elements form the Sitecore configuration with a patch command (it may not always have been there - but this works in Sitecore 6.5). Here is an example: <configuration xmlns:patch="http://www.sitecore.net/xmlconfig/"> <sitecore> <pipelines> <preprocessRequest> <processor type=&q… Read more ►

ImageCropper and sc:image - the missing piece

By Kern Herskind Nightingale, 28 July 2011

About a year ago a wanted to do a blog post on an image cropping processor. Only after writing all the code (doh!) I realised that one was already available in the shared source repository - ImageCropper. This is a brilliant extension of Sitecore's image resizing functionality that ensures that you always get a perfectly cropped image - regardless of the proportions of the image that the editors have uploaded. When the pipeline… Read more ►