Recently I had to set up a Sitecore Commerce Minions role manually. I thought it was simple, because in the past I had already found out that you need to make sure you set the application pool to AlwaysRunning. So I did.Unfortunately, I found out that...

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This message happens when deploying my .NET Core 3.1 application to production (when compiling the code to an .exe file), but not when running the application locally. It turns out, that Dapper is missing a reference to System.Data.SqlClient. Adding th...

As I promised in my last post (please read it first) here is a solution to address the SolR sorting issues. The Problem The issue is that different pages, usually have different date fields to represent how they should be sorted and if we want to adher...

As a followup to my earlier blog post on Accelerated networking on Azure i am looking at other options available in Azure to reduce latency for Azure VM’s. When you place your Azure VM’s in a single region, the physical distance between VM&...

I presented a session at the London and Manchester user groups recently, where I talked about what I needed to do in order to get started developing Sitecore code under Docker. Containers are a hot topic right now, so having had to do some work on this...

In this post, we will cover extracting and viewing digital asset information embedded into files using the Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) standard. We’ll take a look at the steps needed to extract the information and view it as part of the di...

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The .NET Core Worker service is yet another tool in the .NET toolbox. They are perfect for background processing like reading from a queue or making health checks. They are cross-platform (of course) and they can run on docker containers, … Conti...

Microsoft has recently released a Public Preview of Private Link for Azure App Service. This preview is available in limited regions for all PremiumV2 Windows and Linux web apps. Until this point securing App Services through Virtual Network Isolation...

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