Part of extending the Sitecore Commerce Engine and modifying one of its endpoints or adding a new endpoint, you will need to regenerate the Sitecore.Commerce.Proxy assembly. A Visual Studio project is included in the SDK that contains a version of the Sitecore.Commerce.Proxy assembly that ships with the product. If extending this, you should include it… Continue reading Sitecore Commerce 8.2.1 – Sitecore.Commerce.Proxy T4 template generation errors

While trying to install Sitecore Commerce 8.2.1 if you receive this error it is due to your configuration. The Sitecore Commerce Engine is trying to make a request for its configuration in the Sitecore Experience Platform but can’t.     Check some of these things: Review the log file located in the commerce engines website… Continue reading Currency set ‘{4B494292-598E-4A61-A156-D7501F7953ED}’ was not found

Some key themes: Use of social to drive sales and reduce content creation costs – companies are using social channels to like Instagram, twitter, etc. to encourage people to talk about their products and take pictures of their products and bringing that information back to their sites so new customer can better relate to content.… Continue reading Key takeaway’s from the Sydney Online Retailer Conference

I was helping a Sitecore Partner with some of their MongoDB related questions. I’m not a MongoDB expert by any means but I felt that the responses I sources might be of benefit to the wider community. 1)      Will there be impact on Sitecore, if Javascript disabled on MongoDB configuration ? Yes. Javascript must be enabled… Continue reading Sitecore and MongoDB Q&A

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To round out the synchronisation processes logging I needed to instrument each Web API called made that formed part of a sync. This was done in one of two ways. It was either triggered by the client by sending a SyncId in the header or if a SyncId value was present in the users session.… Continue reading Instrumenting Web APIs for requests enlisted the sync process

Connection String Reference from Class Constructor When specifying a connection string property use the ‘name’ key word within contructure which instructs EF5 to throw an exception if it doesn’t find it. I would say this is better practice than not specifying the key word ‘name’. public class ApplicationDB:DbContext { publicApplicationDB() : base(“name=EF5.Demo“) {} } Specifying… Continue reading Connecting String Tips with EF5 and localdb

A file activation error occurred. CREATE DATABASE failed. With Entity Framework 5 I was trying to play around with the enhancements to code first and establish a database with the AttachDbFileName property in the connection string section in the AppConfig file. addname=“DatabaseName“providerName=“System.Data.SqlClient“connectionString=“Data Source=(LocalDB)v11.0;AttachDbFileName=|DataDirectory|DatabaseName.mdf;Integrated Security=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=True“ /> And I was receiving this error message: A file activation… Continue reading Error: A file activation error occurred. CREATE DATABASE failed.

I was reading through some code over the weekend and came across a null-coalescing operator. So I thought I would write a blog post about it and the ternary operator.   null-coalescing operator (??) x = y ?? z If y is null, then z is assigned to x, otherwise y will be assigned to… Continue reading little known, little used C# operators – null-coalescing operator (??) and the ternary operator (?:)

If your organisation is running exchange but has legacy databases that are still in regular use, this post might assist when needing to send a link to a notes database. Open Lotus Notes. Find the database (tile) you would like to send the link for. Right click on the tile. Hover over ‘Databases’ and select… Continue reading Attach lotus notes database link in exchange email or webpage