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The Sitecore Social Connected module contains several independent tools: Social Connector allows website visitors to log in your website using credentials from their social network accounts. Your website receives more information about the visitor from the social network profile. You can use it to personalize the website. Social Publishing allows posting automatic updates to the social networks along with publishing Sitecore items. Putting Like and Tweet buttons on the webpage. You can put the buttons as Sitecore controls and track users' activity using Sitecore analytics.

A new tool called Sitecore Rocks has been released in a CTP (Community Technology Preview) version - a early sneak peek. The tool, although a little rough around the edges, really shows a bright new future for Sitecore development, a future where we as developers do not need to muck about with browsers interfaces, only to connect our code, .NET pages and user controls into Sitecore. Now we can stay within in the tool we use and like, Visual Studio.

The Mail workflow action extends the standard Sitecore email action which is included with the default installation. It is distributed as a standard Sitecore package. The package includes the actual template for this action (the Extended email action), which inherits from the Sitecore Standard template. The extended email action template contains the following fields, grouped in the Parameters section: To - the recipient's email address; From - the sender's email address; Subject - the subject of the email (allows using Velocity templates); Message - the body of the email (allows using Velocity templates); Mail server - the email server you'd like to use for sending emails; *Type - (the same as the Type field of the Sitecore Action template).

The Sitecore Users' Virtual Group is dedicated to supporting the Sitecore community wherever they exist across the globe. We're excited to announce a monthly education series on Sitecore topics. We have some great speakers lined up for our first sessions, and we're looking forward to their deep expertise on Sitecore development. All sessions are free of charge and conducted over the web.

The Sitecore License Expiration Module 2.0 checks the expiration date of the Sitecore license. It shows a Content Editor Warning message or/and send email to notify when the Sitecore license is about to expire.

Latest cool prototypes from Sitecore US lab Alex Shyba Solution Architect Sitecore Oct 19, 2011 Noon Pacific, 3:00 PM Eastern, 8:00 PM UK. Alex will be showing some of the latest Shared Source components that he has been working on. Alex Shyba has been with Sitecore for more than 6 years. His primary role is helping implementation partners in North America build successful solutions on Sitecore platform. Whenever he is not reading car magazines, Alex enjoys exploring dark corners of Sitecore by reading kernel code from Reflector and building cool prototypes. Alex maintains one of the oldest Sitecore blogs at http://sitecoreblog.alexshyba.com/ where he shares his ideas about ways to implement Sitecore and provides recommendations on various aspects of the product. You can connect with Alex on Twitter @alexshyba. Video from the presentation

This document describes how you can scale a Sitecore CMS 6.3 solution by configuring multiple instances in one or more environments, such as Content Management (CM) and Content Delivery (CD). After defining requirements and recommendations for Sitecore CMS 6.3 multi-instance solutions, this document provides instructions to configure CM and CD environments, and describes the steps required to configure an example implementation.

"The installation program does not detect the mode IIS 6 is currently running and set the x64 component up if the OS is 64-bit. This can cause the following error: "Attempted to load a 64-bit assembly on a 32-bit platform. Use ReflectionOnlyLoad() instead if trying to load for reflection purposes." In order to fix this manually, replace the system.data.sqlite.dll in the bin folder of your site with the file provided on this page."

Instructions for converting sitecore web site to Visual Studio Web Application are in this doc

Instructions for converting sitecore web site to Visual Studio Web Application are in this doc

Managing different Sitecore environments can be quite cumbersome. One of the things that I think is annoying is managing the configuration. In my Web.config alone, I currently have 2910 lines of Sitecore configuration, excluding the different configuration files in App_Config! I'm sure others have found this annoying as well. Here's a way of making things a lot easier.

OpenCalais Integration module allows you to to automatically discover semantic relations between your content, Create relevant tags in the Sitecore Taxonomy and tag your content with those by integrating the Sitecore Taxonomy Module, WeBlog Module or any Sitecore item based taxonomy seamlessly with OpenCalais service without additional development. The service is open for commercial and non-commercial use and is free if you don't need to tag more than 50,000 documents a day. The service is easy to apply in your project with this module and almost effortless if you're already using the Sitecore's Shared Source Taxonomy Module.

Sitecore provides a built-in feature for automatic content publishing, which is easy to enable. The example below is based on Sitecore 6.5.

Sitecore does not process default URLs such as http://somedomain.com/somefolder/. An ISAPI filter is required. A free, lite version is available here: http://www.helicontech.com/download-isapi_rewrite3.htm. Here's an example of the regular expression required: RewriteLogLevel 9 LogLevel debug RewriteRule ^/(sitecore.*)$ /$1 [L] RewriteRule ^/([^\.\?]+)/?(\?.*)?$ /$1default.aspx$2 [L]

Sometimes it is required to get all Items in the database based on a given template. Iterating through the entire database may be a very expensive operation though. However in this particular case, we can resort to the Link database. Link database is used by Sitecore to resolve all the linking issues - what referrers and what references the Item has. And if an item is based on a template, it also counts as a reference from the item to the template. The solution then is very simple: get all the referrers for a given template item.

Fix your Sitecore JavaScript errors

Your custom search engine for Sitecore related blogs

Sitecore Blog Search

Sitecore Blog Search

Ahh the LinkManager...

"Rendering.SiteResolving"

How to allow access to the sitecore context in a WCF service.

Overview of the standard data types used in Sitecore 5.3. You need to be a member of the Sitecore Developer Network to access this page.

A stand-alone Windows app for Sitecore Rocks