Constellation for Sitecore

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Constellation is now 9.1.1 Compatible

Constellation is now 9.1.1 Compatible

April 16, 2019November 22, 2019 Sgt. SitecoreUncategorizedLeave a Comment on Constellation is now 9.1.1 Compatible

All Constellation libraries have been upgraded to the Sitecore 9.1.1 Package References. There are no functional changes in this update other than the compatibility upgrade. All supported Constellation NuGet packages now contain up-to-date Project references to this website along with…

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Are your Models killing performance?

Are your Models killing performance?

March 26, 2019November 22, 2019 Sgt. SitecoreUncategorized2 Comments on Are your Models killing performance?

Recently I blogged about my design pattern for Sitecore presentation components: Item->Repository->ViewModel->Controller->View. For brevity, let’s refer to it as Item-Repository-ViewModel. In that post I admonished users to pay careful attention to code responsible for generating ViewModels. This post will reveal…

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Sitecore Design Patterns

Sitecore Design Patterns

March 8, 2019November 22, 2019 Sgt. SitecoreUncategorized1 Comment on Sitecore Design Patterns

I’m going to diverge from the Helix-evangelizing trend in favor of some more specific advice on how to approach Sitecore presentation logic. This blog post will help developers with 80% of the most common kinds of programming encountered in Sitecore.…

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Easy Site-Level LinkManager Settings

Easy Site-Level LinkManager Settings

February 28, 2019November 22, 2019 Sgt. SitecoreUncategorizedLeave a Comment on Easy Site-Level LinkManager Settings

Another well-covered topic in the Sitecore blogsphere, solutions for ensuring you have the right LinkOptions at the right time, the right LinkProvider, and the correct method of accessing LinkManager abound. You do need to keep your wits about you though,…

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Reliable 404 support for your  Sitecore installation

Reliable 404 support for your Sitecore installation

February 27, 2019November 22, 2019 Sgt. SitecoreUncategorizedLeave a Comment on Reliable 404 support for your Sitecore installation

Sitecore off-the-shelf does not provide an end-to-end solution for the dreaded “Page Not Found”. The first 10 search results for “sitecore 404” demonstrate that this is an evergreen blogging topic for Sitecore developers. Popular solutions that were authored years ago…

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When IIS Rewrite won’t cut it with your users

When IIS Rewrite won’t cut it with your users

February 25, 2019November 22, 2019 Sgt. SitecoreUncategorizedLeave a Comment on When IIS Rewrite won’t cut it with your users

First, let me state the IIS Rewrite is an amazing tool, and it definitely has a place in your Sitecore installation. However, URLs are a tool used by Marketers for a variety of things, and sometimes you need to give…

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Address Changing Instrumentation Needs

Address Changing Instrumentation Needs

February 4, 2019November 22, 2019 Sgt. SitecoreUncategorizedLeave a Comment on Address Changing Instrumentation Needs

We all know that Sitecore has an internal traffic analysis feature that includes extensive visitor tracking. However, that’s seldom enough for the modern digital marketer. Aside from the ubiquitous Google trackers, JavaScript-based tracking apps from other sources, whether it’s UX…

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Navigation in Sitecore

Navigation in Sitecore

January 31, 2019November 22, 2019 Sgt. SitecoreUncategorizedLeave a Comment on Navigation in Sitecore

When everything’s an Item, you have to choose your own information architecture. Today we’ll look at information architecture for supporting the most common forms of on-page navigation found on websites since, well, the creation of websites. On the Menu We’ll…

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Changes to ModelMapping

January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 Sgt. SitecoreUncategorizedLeave a Comment on Changes to ModelMapping

Constellation.Foundation.ModelMapping is an extremely lightweight framework that handles the transfer of Item field values to View Models. While the framework has only been public for about a year, its core programming style has its roots in predecessors to Constellation libraries,…

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Sitecore Architecture DNA

January 17, 2019January 17, 2019 Sgt. SitecoreUncategorizedLeave a Comment on Sitecore Architecture DNA

Working with the Sitecore platform for 14 years, I’ve seen a lot of different approaches to organizing the content tree. Those approaches have changed over time as features like Web Edit (remember that?) have evolved into the current Experience Editor…

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