Søren Kruse | .NET, C# and Azure

  1. Sitecore ContentSearch - Filtering by null and empty strings

    By default Sitecore will not save null and empty strings in your indexes as it wastes space. However, you might need to do something like this: using (var context = ContentSearchManager.GetIndex("MyIndex").CreateSearchContext()) { var query = context.GetQueryable<SearchResultItem>().Where(x => x.Name != null); var results…
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  2. Query string parameter being URL encoded in Sitecore 8

    There currently is a bug in the latest version of Sitecore ranging from around version 7.2 to 8.0 Update-4 (rev. 150621) with regards to the query string parameter on internal links using a link field. If you have chosen an item and entered something into the query string…
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  3. "Between" filter on computed field in Sitecore 8

    Say you have the following computed field in your index configuration: <fields hint="raw:AddComputedIndexField"> <field fieldName="Duration">Your.Namespace.DurationComputed,Your.Assembly</field> </fields> And this class to map your results to: public class MySearchResultItem { public int…
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  4. Duplicate entries in custom index with syncMaster strategy

    If you have tried creating your own custom index with Sitecore 7 you might have run into this issue already. We ran into this issue at work yesterday. After saving an item it would create another entry in our custom index with the new data but the old entry would…
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  5. Disable indexing temporarily in Sitecore 7 from code

    Sitecore 7 introduced a lot of new things including the Sitecore.ContentSearch namespace containing new indexing and search APIs. These makes it easier to work with Lucene indexes as you now don’t actually need to know anything about Lucene. Though, as you might have noticed in the change logs…
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  6. Sitecore user profile custom properties are case sensitive

    I recenty ran into some unexpected behavior from Sitecore when working with custom properties on user profiles. I were trying to get the value of a custom property on a user profile, but the returned value ended up being null even though I was sure the property was there and…
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  7. Hooking into Sitecore's save pipeline

    Some time ago I did some work on a web application built on Sitecore which used the new application cache introduced in HTML5. Application cache essentially makes your web site/application or parts of it available offline and thus can also speed up your application in certain scenarios as content…
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  8. An AngularJS directive for handling decimals

    I’ve been working on a web application built with AngularJS for a client. Angular is a great tool for working with the UI of a web application. If you don’t know what AngularJS is you probably won’t get too much out of this blog post, but AngularJS…
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