Jeremy Davis
Sitecore, C# and web development
I have a complicated relationship with WPF. When you know what you're doing, it's great for building desktop apps. It's much easier to handle scenarios like apps getting used across varying DPIs, or doing complex UI layouts. But there are a few bits of it which, when you don't know how to do them, aren't intuitive. I bumped into another one the other day: Needing to trigger an animation on-demand. And so I can remember this next time I need to do this, here's a quick write-up of one way to achieve it...
When you have an entity that moves through a State Flow in Content Hub you may well want users to be able to see at a glance where things are in that flow. So here's one way you might set that up to give a nice visual representation in your listings for the entity:
The pace of change with .Net is pretty relentless these days. And every so often they ship a thing that fixes a challenge I've been mulling over addressing myself. That's happened again with Process API changes in preview 4 of .Net 11. So if you have code which spawns other executables, you might want to look at what they've changed...
I've been spending some time setting up some custom Entities in Content Hub recently. I bumped up against an issue with one feature where it took me a while to find the right info to make it work the way I wanted.
I spoke recently at the London user group, talking about a scenario where you might use Content Hub to help you with OrderCloud projects. Since that presentation didn't get recorded I thought I should write some notes on the core bits of what I said, as this is probably of interest to a wider audience...
I found a fun new variation on the "Windows Server Essentials client can be tricky to install" problems I've had in the past recently. To help me remember for next time, here's the issue I saw this time...
I've been looking at some information architecture stuff for OrderCloud recently, and came across a situation where "groups" were suggested as helpful for the business scenario I needed to model. There didn't seem to be a great deal of documentation about why you might want them for things like this, so I figured it might help others for me to write down what I was looking at. And why groups might be the right answer for you too...
A colleague showed me something I'd not seen before about Azure DevOps wikis the other day, which kind of blew my mind. If you've not realised this either, maybe it can blow yours too...
If you're experimenting with OrderCloud then getting a sandbox instance is an important part of the discovery process. Unlike most of Sitecore's products, this one is available free to anyone (just register in the portal) - so it's easy to give it a try. But if you want to build an experiment against the sandbox instance you need your code to authenticate with it. And this has tripped me up a couple of times because it's not wildly well documented. So learn from my frustration...
Have you thought about attending SUGCON EU this year? We're getting close to the community's big annual get-together which is being held in London this year. And as ever it has a very interesting looking agenda. Still thinking whether you should attend? Here's a few of the reasons why I'll be there...
