TDS Blog: Sitecore Best Practices and Dev Insights

May 14, 2015 | Angel Uzunov

As developers we like to have our icons neatly labelled and organized, we are weird like that. However, sometimes having a ton of custom icons puts a heavy strain on Visual Studio when you're loading a project. Find out more about this issue and how to work around it.


May 05, 2015 | Angel Uzunov

During development we handle many files with LONG path names. Often developers run into an issue with the file name length. Well TDS has a feature that helps avoid this issue!


April 21, 2015 | Angel Uzunov

More and more people are starting to use Visual Studio Online. Since TDS 5.0, we supported use with Visual Studio Online. The set up; however, is a bit different with VSO than your local installation. This post will explain how to set up TDS within Visual Studio Online.


April 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.


April 15, 2015 | Angel Uzunov

With our recent TDS upgrade we've seen an influx of support requests around a Visual Studio crash right after upgrading. In this blog I'll explain the reason for the crash and the easy remedy to fixing it.


April 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.