I recently needed to create a proxy API which needed to run off my Sitecore instance – and needed to support CORS – with this being hosted as a headless nextjs application. Here’s what we implemented: The controller was inherited from ApiController (System.Web.Http), and we added the following attributes (System.Web.Http.Cors) – on the action (you… Read More Enable CORS for API in Sitecore
Ever come across this pesky issue with Sitecore configuration patch files? Could not find property ‘patch:attribute’ on object of type: Sitecore.Links.LinkProvider (Or whatever pipeline you are replacing/ adding to) You are missing the definition statement on top of your config in this case Probably obvious, but I have spent some time looking around in the… Read More Could not find property ‘patch:attribute’
While this isn’t exactly ground breaking or new by any means, here an old-school .net solution to enabling site down page for your website. This is not Sitecore specific, and is an IIS supported way of achieving this. I add this here, just because I actually came across this for the first time just recently,… Read More Enable site maintenance page for Sitecore site
There are endless ways of making your code secure and cryptography is a vast subject with numerous algorithms, options and levels of security you can achieve. However, if you are just looking for something quick, and perhaps your main agenda here is to only convert your clear text into an alphanumeric string alone, here’s a… Read More Cryptography Utility
Do you end up with 17 different versions of a single image you took on your phone, when you try to clear up space and copy over everything to your system? I do. With the different folders they make their way into, in the name of backups and the various locations they get uploaded into,… Read More Compare images in C#
There are several ways to achieve deep cloning of objects. I have tried multiple ways to do this, but most of them were flawed – either in execution or performance. One of the simplest and most effective ways I have seen is serializing the object into binary and restoring it into a new object! Seems… Read More Deep clone an item in C#
Images can usually take up most of your page load time. In our project we were loading product images from the servers, and resizing them before serving them up on the site. To improve performance, we decided to try and do the resizing and image loading there after asynchoronously. So we created an asynchronous http… Read More Asynchronous resize of images (async http handler) with default sitecore image
There are plenty of snippets out there to resize images, and I went through a lot of them, while trying to implement this. But a bunch of them gave me quality issues and some others came with other issues of their own. So here’s the code we used to resize images, with the provision to… Read More Resize Images with Crop and Quality Control
Strip out HTML Tags Convert string to Alphanumeric text If you want to allow spaces, modify the regex to “[^a-zA-Z0-9 ]”
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