Jeremy Davis
Sitecore, C# and web development
One of the fun things about defining objects and their APIs in C# is thinking about which bits you want your consumers to see, and which bits need to be there just for you, and consumers should avoid using. Most developers are aware of keywords like
public
/
private
and
internal
for achieving this, but Explicit Interfaces are another approach to this...
An issue that crops up fairly often in web agency work is that you have to work on code for older versions of Sitecore. Most of the time this is fine, but sometimes in between the Sitecore version getting released and you doing this work, stuff changes in Windows that makes this setup harder than it should be... This has been a challenge recently as some of my fellow developers now have Windows 11 on their laptops, and they're having to work on Sitecore 10.2 projects. And out of the box, SIF or SIA won't install in that scenario these days. Having had to help a couple of people with these issues recently, I figured it might be worth automating the fixes with some Powershell, so it's easier in the future. And maybe that automation might help you?
I was tinkering with some some code that could post to BlueSky recently, and it took me a couple of goes to make the process of submitting a message with an image work. So in case it's of any use to anyone else, here's one way it can work:
