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Get sitecore items as XML Hierarchy

Fetch a hierarchy of sitecore items as an XmlDocument. I have assumed that we are only interested in three item properties for this example: ‘id’, ‘name’ and ‘link’’. This can be useful if you want to generate lightweight XML that is free of the overhead of all item metadata and fields that you are not interested in using.

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Custom Tree List

Custom sitecore TeeList field that uses the ‘source’ location that is defined in the Template. This has been build against sitecore v6.2 but should work against all versions above sitecore 6.0.
Edit: With the latest version of sitecore, you can now use DataSource=path within the source of the TreeList to overcome this problem.

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Setting up a Sitecore project works with both versions 5.3 and 6

This post will tell you exactly how a structure a sitecore project assuming that you have the following requirements for your SC environment. You need to have multiple websites running on one instance of SC and you want each website to have its own Visual Studio project. You are not using a virtual folder per website. You want to manage multiple Class Library/Child projects within each website project. You want to keep the Renderings, Sub-layouts, Layouts, Associated files (css, js etc) and DLL’s of each website independent.

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ASP.NET service faulting error Sitecore 6 workaround

We have sitecore 6 environments working on Virtual Machines (VM’s). Sitecore 6 seems to cause an ASP error at seemingly random intervals leading to a total loss of service only on VM’s. Event Viewer will show you a faulting error. Here is the fix.

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Sitecore – Store Multilist related content within local item on save

Our clients have ‘subject’ and ‘function’ Metadata fields within their web page. They wanted to be able to content manage this subject and function list . They then wanted to be able to assign a subset of these function and subject keywords into each web page item…

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Sitecore – Custom Text Field

In this post I will describe how to create a very simple Custom Text field in Sitecore. I have based this off the example of a custom checkbox field that can be found in the Sitecore website.

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