Apropos Sitecore blog: Visual Studio 2010

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 ►

TDS to get T4 code generation in upcoming version

By Kern Herskind Nightingale, 19 April 2012

Great news today. The guys at Hedgehog Development has just announced that the upcoming version of TDS will have T4 code generation built in. Here is a sneak peak from Hedgehogs YouTube channel: If you have read my blog post on Automatic Sitecore Model Generation you see that it's a very similar workflow to the one described in the video. I'm very excited about trying out the code generation feature of TDS. It looks like TDS will give a better… Read more ►

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 ►

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 ►

TDS refuses to deploy locally at random?

By Kern Herskind Nightingale, 15 June 2011

A couple of times I have experienced an oddity with TDS where it doesn't deploy consistently to the local Sitecore instance when running a build. To get it to deploy I would have to force a Rebuild Solution. It turns out that the project build order can get jumbled somehow. Luckily the fix was quite simple: Right click on the the Solution or any Project in the Solution Explorer and choose "Build order..." Verify that your TDS… Read more ►