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Azure ApplicationInsights track custom metrics using the TelemetryClient
The Microsoft.ApplicationInsights nuget package is your code gateway to the Microsoft Application Insights portal, and also to the Azure Monitor universe. You use these tools as a shared place for your...
View ArticleSerilog – Add thread ID to the log file
Serilog is more or less the default file logger when developing .NET Core applications. The simple logger can easily be modified to – for example – add the thread ID. FIRST THINGS FIRST: THE SERILOG...
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Sitecore delete old item versions
Are your Sitecore editors version-trigger-happy? Is your master database items drowning in old versions that will never be used – or is just exact replicas of the previous version? Many versions of the...
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Sitecore disable automatic lock on create items
From Sitecore 9, Sitecore changed the default behavior when creating items in the content editor. As per default, any item is locked when created, and will only be unlocked if the user unlocks it, or...
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Your session ID is being reused and there is nothing you can do about it
In many years we have been used to the fact that the ASP.Net session ID uniquely identifies one session, and one session only. Back in 2006, Margaret Rouse from TechTarget even wrote in the definition...
View ArticleSitecore Pipelines – The great walkthrough
I have previously stated my enthusiasm for the Sitecore Pipeline concept. This article describes how to create your own, how to add parameters, and which properties to use. WHAT IS A SITECORE PIPELINE?...
View ArticleRead blob file from Microsoft Azure Storage with .NET Core
In order to read a blob file from a Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, you need to know the following: The storage account connection string. This is the long string that looks like this:...
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Read from Azure Queue with Azure WebJobs 3.0 and .NET Core
From WebJobs 2.0 to WebJobs 3.0 Microsoft have completely rewritten the way Azure WebJobs is used. The reasons are probably noble, but they require you to redo your work when upgrading. So I made this...
View ArticleDeserialize XML array to string[] and how to allow JSON to be deserialized...
How do you deserialize the classic XML array to an string[] type? The XML representation of an array is a list of elements: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <root> <MyXml>...
View ArticleSitecore get Context from fully qualified URL
One of the basic Sitecore concepts is the concept of a context. The context is resolved from the HTTP Context to Sitecore and determines the database, language, user domain, content start item etc. The...
View ArticleCreate Sitecore items using PowerShell
You can use the Sitecore PowerShell Extensions for many trivial tasks. This script creates a “components” folder below all items from a root item: // Get the root item $root = Get-ChildItem -Path...
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Sitecore start scheduled task manually
Sitecore scheduled tasks are background tasks running on a schedule. But never when you need it, especially when developing the tasks. You can trigger these tasks manually if you please. THE EASY WAY:...
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Sitecore Item Clones is only a thing in the master database
The Sitecore item cloning is a technique in which you can create a copy of an item that inherits the field values of the original items. In the latest versions of Sitecore (at least from 9.0 and...
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Azure Functions CRON expressions
When creating Microsoft Azure Functions, you can have a timer that triggers your function. The time for when the function should run is specified in a CRON expression: Microsoft Azure CRON Expression...
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Calling Azure Functions from JavaScript – The CORS configuration
You cannot call Azure Functions from JavaScript unless you configure the CORS settings for your Function Apps: Azure Functions CORS Settings This is because Microsoft have by default enabled CORS and...
View ArticleChange date format using .NET Regular Expressions
You can use Regex.Replace to change the format of a date string. For example if your input string is YYYY/MM/DD but you need to change it to YYYY-MM-DD, you can use this small method: public static...
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200 OK vs 202 Accepted – Whats the difference?
When working with Azure cloud services like Azure Logic Apps or Azure Automation (Runbooks), you often come across that service endpoints return 202 Accepted instead of 200 OK on success. But why do...
View ArticleSitecore remove “Job started” and “Job ended” from log files
In large Sitecore installations with many background tasks you will find the following log lines over and over again: ManagedPoolThread #1 10:26:05 INFO Job started: xxxxx ManagedPoolThread #5 10:26:05...
View ArticleSitecore logging – Create new log file every day
Sitecore have since forever used Log4Net as it’s logging platform. Log4Net is nicely extensible and can be configured to log in many ways. As per default, Sitecore is configured to start writing to a...
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Sitecore use Application Insights Metrics and Telemetry
Although Sitecore have an integration for Application Insights (which is part of Azure Monitor), you can implement the TelemetryClient yourself. This is useful if you wish to log Metrics or Trace your...
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