TDS Blog: Sitecore Best Practices and Dev Insights
June 24, 2015 | Charlie Turano
While working on a recent Sitecore MVC implementation, I started to think about how Sitecore handles errors in the MVC components on a page. In past implementations, I had added a processor to the mvc.exception pipeline to route the user to the error page for the current site. This works reasonably well, but I began to notice a few drawbacks.
TweetMay 26, 2015 | Charlie Turano
We received a puzzling TDS support issue recently. A customer reached out to me and reported that their automated deployment process was slowing down their CD significantly. Upon further investigation, it wasn’t just slowing down significantly – it was practically crawling. This was a weird one.
TweetMay 21, 2015 | Charlie Turano
Sitecore recently released Update 3 (150427) for Sitecore 8. This fixes a number of issues in the previous release, but it introduced a problem with the Update Installation Wizard.
TweetApril 15, 2015 | Charlie Turano
One of the coolest new features of TDS 5 was Validators. Validators allow a developer to have the build automatically check the Sitecore items in the TDS project against specific criteria and generate warnings or errors if the item meets the criteria. This blog post will document the process of setting up your own custom validator.
TweetApril 02, 2015 | Charlie Turano
Sometimes getting your T4 templates directly from GitHub, causes issues within TDS's code generation. The issue is caused by line endings being appended in GitHub. Read this to find out more about the issue and how to avoid/fix it.
TweetMarch 10, 2015 | Charlie Turano
A lot of people ask about leveraging a HTTPS connection between their machine and the server. This connection is fully supported, out of the box with TDS. To implement this type of connection you simply need to make sure your certificates are properly managed.
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