You are using Helix principles with your Sitecore project. Great!!! You are listening well to the Sitecore Gurus and following the divine path. You are setting up TDS, MsBuild server and Octopus deploy for you Continuous Integration. Sweet!! You might run into issue where you need to have consistent Assembly version for all the projects. You…
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How to create Continuous Integration with TFS, TDS and Visual Studio for a Sitecore Helix Solution
(**Note: This might be little pre mature, but I want to capture the main process of the solution before I forget.) I have created a Sitecore project using Helix Principle. For all the TDS projects I have created a Global TDS config and that is the easiest way to handle the TDS items. We are…
Visual Studio 2019 and Gulp script for Sitecore Habitat
If you are using Visual Studio 2019 and have the Habitat project and trying to run the Gulp script, You might find that you are getting errors. It might look like this { Error: spawn C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Professional\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\amd64\MSBuild.exe ENOENT at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:232:19) at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:407:16) at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:63:19) This is an issue with…
Customizing Sitecore Upload Pipeline for both folder and database based Media
I wanted to upload documents to Sitecore Media library and at the time of upload, I would like to replace the metadata on the pdf file. Many of you probably have looked at this document for reference from Sitecore SDN. But that document has few problems. I will point those out as I write this…
Sitecore “Tracker.Current is not initialized ” issue
PROBLEM: Solution: Culprit is the MongoDB is not installed on your PC. Go through your config and disable connections to it. If you have MongoDB installed, make sure it is running and your connectionstring is correct. Steps: You have 2 Options to fix it. You can Install MongoDB and point your instance to it. …
Working Visual Studio 2017, Sitecore 8.x and Sitecore Rocks
I am setting up a Sitecore Environment for a Project with Sitecore 8.2 and Sitecore rocks to work with Sitecore connection from visual studio. Since I have accidentally deleted my vmx file when working late on one of my VM. I though it would be fun to see what issues I face if I set…