Articles written by author Jimmi Lyhne Andersen

In this episode we interview Sean Kearney from Hedgehog Development. The interview is focused on Hedgehogs product - Team Development for Sitecore. In the podcast you will here about the basic concepts of TDS as well as best practices and technical details, which you can use when developing solutions using TDS.

In .NET there is no dedicated class for working with query strings. So adding, removing or changing query string parameters requires lots of code with check for parameters existing, placement in the query string and so on.

Fortunately Sitecore has made working with query strings very easy with the UrlString class. In this article I will demonstrate how to use it to manipulate query strings.

If you need to programmatically work with html in a Sitecore solution, Sitecore includes the Html Agility Pack. In this article I will explain why this can be very useful, make your code much easier to read and save you a lot of time.

In this article I will give an overview of one of the most important things in Sitecore, the content editor.

This article is intended for users who are new to Sitecore or users who would like to know the possibilities of the content editor better.

This article takes a look at the first page an editor will meet in Sitecore, the login screen.

In this episode we'll be interviewing Sitecore CTO Johtn West. We will be talking about who he is, what he does and about his presentation at Dreamcore Europe 2010. The interview took place right after the final session at Dreamcore.

In this article, I will describe the different possibilities for sorting items that exist in Sitecore.
This includes both manually sorting the items and different automatic sortings.

This article will show you how to help the editors figuring out how to use the items and fields correctly, and thereby saving them a lot of time figuring out what the developer was thinking when she was coding the website.

In this article, I will explain the key concepts related to publishing content in Sitecore.

We will take a look at the different ways to publish content, how to check your new content before publishing and see how its possible to save old versions of your content.

Treelists are great controls for letting the editors point out a list of items.

For eksample when choosing which spots to show in a spot column. But when you have a lot of different spots and not all of them fits into the spot column populated by the field, you want to make sure that editors don't choose the wrong spots.

The best thing would be that editors didn't even have the possibility to select the wrong spots in the treelist.

When using $name to insert title on an item, the text in the title field is limited to the allowed characters for an item name.

This approach requires the editors to correct the title field after the item has been created.

This article will describe how you can allow the editors to create an item with the title including illegal characters, and let the system generate a legal item name.

When you find yourself writing the same piece of html again and again or have some content that you write in the rich text editor that always should look the same but maybe with difference in text, you should consider making a snippet.

A snippet is a small piece of html that can be pasted into a html field in two clicks of your mouse.
And by using it you are sure that the html surrounding your text is always the same.