Sitecore DI container references vs system boundaries. In my post, Watch your Composition Root, I explore how to empower plugins to be apart of the application bootstrap process. After sharing this two friends of mine, Rob Earlam and Sean Holmesby
Sitecore seven to nine in no time Target .NET framework As you can imagine a solution that has been around since Sitecore 7 has 'A LOT' of projects. My first plan was to visit each one and edit the target framework via the
Sitecore seven to nine in no time Indexes IndexField could not be found Back in Sitecore 7, this attribute was found in the Sitecore.ContentSearch assembly, as of Sitecore 8 it was moved to Sitecore.ContentSearch.Linq, it is used to
Sitecore seven to nine in no time Web Forms For Marketers Sitecore 9 is the beginning of the end for WFFM, thank God. Unfortunately, I am not out of the woods with my upgrade task as a new version was released. A new forms
Sitecore seven to nine in no time Sitecore Client Customisation WebEditCommand?! The WebEditCommand class once resided in the Sitecore.Client.dll, as of Sitecore 8.1 it has moved to Sitecore.ExperienceEditor.dll. Issues: The type or namespace name 'WebEditCommand' could not be
Sitecore seven to nine in no time ECM After working through upgrade issues related to ECM, the number of errors was overwhelming and intent of the customisations unclear, I concluded that pursuing a straight upgrade was not worth the effort involved.
Sitecore seven to nine in no time Analytics, move over DMS and xDB?! In Sitecore 7.5 xDB was introduced, this brought new ways of thinking about visitors to your website and tracking their journeys, but it was one big breaking change for solutions that had
Sitecore Service Locator Pattern or Anti-Pattern? For a long time now I have considered the Service Locator an Anti-Pattern, but recently I have come to question this resolve, is it black and white? Maybe not. Mark Seemann first introduced
Sitecore Two containers are better than one. Sitecore is a fantastic CMS that does many things right, and from version 8.2 the list also included Dependency Injection. It's great to see the product embrace IoC, the framework's code is
Software Craftsmanship Plugins, why should I care? In my last post, Watch your Composition Root, while exploring how I keep my bootstrapping code nice and tidy, I point out that the approach workes very well when implementing the plugin pattern.
Dependency Injection Watch your Composition Root IoC is a great pattern that can help make business logic easier to maintain and independently test, all while decreasing complexity. However, in large applications object dependency graphs can become quite complicated making
Unit Testing Test First Drop Bear I love TDD, but there could be a Drop Bare[1] waiting for you. The whole Red Green Refactor cycle is great but, can it be taken too far? When I started coding
Express yourself Express yourself - Constants This is the second instalment in this series exploring the building blocks of computer programming from a C# point of view. For the first instalment, please read Variables and Values Constant A simplistic
Software Craftsmanship One, One Responsibility HA HA HA HA! Over the past five weeks, I have been sharing my understanding of the SOLID principles with my team. Now being at the end of week five I wanted to share this understanding with
Sitecore Commerce Sellable Item why are you so null? I recently followed the steps set out in the Sitecore Commerce Developer's Guide to add additional properties to the sellable item, this was achieved by adding another property to the products in commerce
Sitecore Commerce Re-bootstrap & initialise The first thing we need to do is to clear out the Commerce Engine databases. USE XXXX_Global; TRUNCATE TABLE CommerceEntities; TRUNCATE TABLE CommerceLists; TRUNCATE TABLE Versions; USE XXXX_SharedEnvironments; TRUNCATE TABLE CommerceEntities;
Sitecore Commerce Add a variant to the cart, not the product itself. When trying to add an item to the cart I was getting the following error 41 10:23:28 ERROR CtxMsg.Error.EntityNotFound: Text=Entity 'Catalog|Modem|' was not found. 41 10:
Sitecore Commerce Aaron asks Rob Sitecore Commerce questions How do I clear out the Commerce Engine database? Truncate all of the tables in XXX_Global & XXX_SharedEnvironments DB's, then recycle IIS and reboostrap & initialize. Why can't I add a
Express yourself Express yourself - Variables and values Variables and values are intimately intertwined. In mathematics, a variable describes an alphabetic character used to represent a number, whereas the value is that number. In programming, the meaning is very similar, a
Express yourself Express yourself - Init Values, constants, variables, operators, objects and functions are, in my mind the most basic building blocks of a modern computer program, and like many other terms in computing, they are borrowed from mathematics.
Learn C# The newbie Hello All, I would like to thank Aaron for bringing myself on board. Being able to offer you years of experience like Aaron I cannot. While this June I will have been working
What When How Computers. You are the Computer Once upon a time, the noun Computer did not refer to the magical machine sitting on my desk, in fact, I would have been the Computer. In early 1600, the word computer first
Learn C# Gravypower Rebooted The last post made on this blog was back in 2015 when I was still living in Belfast since then a lot has changed. My partner and I moved back to Australia, we
Dependencies To check in dependencies or not to check in dependencies I have been playing around in the world of Drupal and Front End development for a while now and have come across a topic of discussion that I thought I had heard the
Sitecore Unit Tetsing and Sitecore I am a big advocate of TDD and would love to see interfaces on all of the Sitecore types. This is a big ask to put to the product team as they have
