Category Archives: Sitecore
Sitecore Staging. Onwards and upwards.
There isn’t anything new here, more a case of just wrapping up some posts and tying some events together. In July 2009 I posted about some significant issues with the Sitecore staging module. Two months later in Sept 2009 Alex Shyba announced … Continue reading
Problems with the Sitecore 6 staging module part 2 – extranet user loses session
[Update Dec 2010: See this post for details of important changes since this post for first published] Session state lost after publishing. This post follows on from Part 1. The symptom: I guess this is pretty self-explanitory, but it depends how … Continue reading
Problems with Sitecore and the staging module part 1.
[Update April 2011: This post and part 2 are now irrelevant for Sitecore 6.x See this post for details of important changes since this post was first published] This has been a bugbear for some time now. I’ve had firsthand experience … Continue reading
Sitecore with Gridview – rowupdating event doesn’t fire
Whenever using Databound server controls with Sitecore need to be aware that Sitecore meddles with some controls. This nasty issue which can have you banging your head against the wall for hours (days?) has been previously blogged by Mark Cassidy but I guess … Continue reading
GridView problem – Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: ‘Timestamp’ Key being added: ‘Timestamp’
In general ASP.net, this can be caused by calling DataBind() more than once on a databound control. Also be aware that this is influenced by automatic databind being on too. Relating this to Sitecore CMS, you should be aware that Sitecore ships … Continue reading
Sitecore preview bug – looking at web database
Sitecore v6 introduced another preview tool accessible from [Presentation] > [Preview] as opposed to [Publish] > [Preview]. The new preview mode opens another tab in the content editor which shows the preview of the current item. This is all fine … Continue reading
Sitecore – Could not load file or assembly System.Data.SQLite
After installing Sitecore v6, you get the following error when viewing the website or sitecore UI: Sitecore Could not load file or assembly ‘System.Data.SQLite, Version=1.0.48.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=db937bc2d44ff139’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program … Continue reading
Sitecore ContextItem.Database.SelectItems() and languages.
While poking around in the shared source RSS module for Sitecore, I found that several aspects of the “static feeds” feature loose language context during publishing. This only effects static feeds whereby the rss.xml file(s) are written to disk and linked-too … Continue reading
Paul George 