Sean Holmesby

.NET and Sitecore Developer

Jul
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Fixing Visual Studio IntelliSense in Sitecore MVC Views

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IntelliSense in Visual Studio is a fantastic auto-complete feature that greatly improves your Sitecore development, however I’ve occasionally seen this not working in my MVC solutions.

01 - HTML Sitecore Helper not working

In particular, I was seeing the following error highlighted around any calls to the @Html.Sitecore() helper:-

‘System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper<Model>’ does not contain a definition for ‘Sitecore’ and no extension method ‘Sitecore’ accepting first argument of type ‘System.Web.Mvc.HtmlHelper<Model> could be found.’

This would mean that I could not get auto-complete on the @Html.Sitecore() helper, nor would I get auto-complete for my properties on my Glass Models.

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Jan
17

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Sitecore Glass Mapper Data Handler for a Link List field

Category: Sitecore Tags: , 6 Comments

Here’s a way to map a custom Link List field in Sitecore to Glass.Mapper.Sc, for easy usage.
The following was used for Monoco’s Link List field but can also be used with the Field Suite’s General Links field by Velir, as it stores the same raw value.
(Note: for Monoco’s Link List field, it’s better to download the LinkList package from the Monoco site than the Sitecore Marketplace, as the Marketplace version is outdated at the time of writing this post).
LinkList

For more information on Data Handlers, check out the Data Handler tutorial on the Glass Mapper website here.
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Jan
13

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The Launch Sitecore Site using TDS

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The Launch Sitecore site is a great shared source site that allows Sitecore editors and developers to check out a complete Page Editor and DMS friendly Sitecore solution. The site comes complete with Engagement Plans, User Profiles and Lucene Indexing, and the code and content can be downloaded by registering on the site, then going to the /download page.
Launch Sitecore

While playing around with the site, I wanted to have a play with a couple of things from the development side of things. I wanted to teach myself things with:-

As a result, I have created a GitHub repository that has the code from the Sitecore package in a Web Application solution, and have converted all of the items in the package into serialised items in TDS.
You can grab the repo from here:-
https://github.com/SaintSkeeta/LaunchSitecoreTDS

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Oct
25

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Sitecore Development Tools

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Last week I was honored to be a part of the Sitecore Development Tools Round Table discussion at the 2013 Sitecore Users Virtual Summit. Talking with a team of seasoned Sitecore developers, we discussed the tools and add-ons that we each use during our everyday Sitecore development.

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Apr
22

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Sitecore MVC: Page Editor friendly Views with Glass Mapper

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I originally published this post on the Igloo blog.

Last week Mike Edwards, the creator of Sitecore Glass Mapper, presented version 3 of the new Glass Mapper on the Sitecore Virtual User Group. [Slides here], [Video here]

During the webinar I asked if it was possible to use Glass models in MVC Views, while still having them Page Editor friendly.
After the webinar, Mike held a Google Hangout, and some other developers expressed their interest in how this could be done with Sitecore MVC.

This blog post details how the developers at Igloo enable the page editor using Glass Mapper with Sitecore MVC.

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