Sean Holmesby

.NET and Sitecore Developer

Jul
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Sitecore TDS 4.0 – Item Merging

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I originally published this post on the Igloo blog.

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This blog post is about Team Development for Sitecore by Hedgehog Development, and the new item merging feature in TDS 4.0.

In a webinar on TDS by the Sitecore Virtual User Group, Dan Galvez, a founder of Hedgehog Development, mentioned that TDS 4.0 would include a new tool for merging Sitecore items. This would act in the same way that you’d merge .NET code.

In the past, when you sync with Sitecore you would have to choose to push the entire item either to Sitecore, or to the TDS project. The item merge tool adds more granularity, allowing you to update Sitecore for some fields, and update the TDS project for others.

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Jul
12

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Sitecore TDS 4.0 – Config Transforms

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I originally published this post on the Igloo blog.

This blog post is about Team Development for Sitecore by Hedgehog Development, and the new config transforms feature in TDS 4.0.

Igloo were privileged to obtain the TDS 4.0 beta from Hedgehog recently, to have a play with the latest features.  One of those features that excited me was the inclusion of support for config transformations.

A lot of our projects use config transformations, and have custom code built into the MSBuild file to make these transforms. While TDS v3 had a File Replacement feature that you could use for changing files based on a Visual Studio configuration, it seemed a bit long-winded compared to just transforming the file. Luckily, the Solution Architect at Hedgehog Development, Sean Kearney, announced the config transform feature on his blog back in May, and since then I’ve been busting to get this implemented on our projects.

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