Sitecore | .Net Core| Azure| C# | Nextjs: November 2017

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Microsoft Azure Discovery Day in Melbourne- Indeed a good show

I urge folks out there in Australia to leverage this wonderful opportunity to gather know and how about Azure. Too many things to catch up. Very fast pace of improvement, new services , new products Microsoft Azure is offering on the table so far in terms of PAAS, IAAS and SAAS. Having said that I attended Microsoft Azure Discovery Day in Melbourne on 21st Nov 2017. I liked the presentation , demo and short knowledge transitioned by presenter. I must say there is many thing happening in Azure space.

Continuous Delivery as part of App Service
Logic App
Azure Function
Web Apps
Automation Run book
Security Centre
Cloudyn for cost and estimation
OMS
App Insight
Azure Template

APIM Management- Create mock API, test api. https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday/Azure-API-Management-New-Admin-UI-and-Mocks

[You can now mock api data without being backend ready. You can test api without using developer portal.
Swagger definition available as part of code editor.]

References:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/resources/templates/

https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday/Azure-API-Management-New-Admin-UI-and-Mocks

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Sitecore Dynamic Placeholder

I prefer

TDS
TDS with glass mapper template[Auto code generation for sitecore template model]
Fortis Dynamic Placeholder Nuget
Sitecore 8.2.1
MVC 5
.Net framework 4.5.2

The difficult part of sitecore is setup stage to start your development.

Install MVC Sitecore 8.2.1

https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_platform/developing/developing_with_sitecore/set_up_sitecore_and_visual_studio_for_development

Sitecore solution base nuget package can be found in above documentation. Follow step by step instruction.

Install Glass mapper

Install Dynamic Placeholder Nuget

Install TDS

Use wizard to create master content tree sync solution

Sitecore .Net Solution

Glass mapper TDS - Template

Sitecore Rocks

http://sitecore-community.github.io/docs/sitecore-mvc/view-renderings/

Dynamic Placeholder

http://fortis.ws/fortis-collection/dynamic-placeholders/

Glass Mapper @editable View Rendering

https://www.akshaysura.com/2016/06/10/tihidi-implement-a-simple-view-rendering-in-sitecore-mvc-and-glass/

To create this sample. I have created two component in MVC and then corresponding renderings in sitecore.

	View as Component	Placeholder	Sitecore Renderings
1	MainLayoutPage.cshtml <html> <body> <div class="container"> @Html.Sitecore().DynamicPlaceholder("dynamic-row") </div> </body> </html>	dynamic-row
2	OneRowThreeColumn.cshtml <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-4"> <div class="tile--bordered"> @Html.Sitecore().DynamicPlaceholder("dynamic-content") </div> </div> <div class="col-sm-4"> <div class="tile--bordered"> @Html.Sitecore().DynamicPlaceholder("dynamic-content") </div> </div> <div class="col-sm-4"> <div class="tile--bordered"> @Html.Sitecore().DynamicPlaceholder("dynamic-content") </div> </div> </div>	dynamic-row	One Row Three Column
3	RichText.cshtml @inherits Glass.Mapper.Sc.Web.Mvc.GlassViewISingleRichText> <p class="tile__title">@Editable(Model, y=>y.Title)</p> <p class="tile__sub-title"> @if (Model != null) { @Editable(Model, y => y.Detail) } </p>	dynamic-content	***Rich Text with Model(Template- Data Template SingleRichText)