Sitecore AbortStaticFiles with Pipeline

Sitecore has a very flexible pipeline implementation allowing developers to extend the basic behaviours of how a page/file etc will be handled. In certain cases you don’t want to kill the system and just let certain files be executed without the Sitecore context and let the files be returned to the user as quickly and with minimal processing required. Now why do we want this, if you allow ASP.NET to handle all traffic, such as turing off extensions and friendly media file names then ASP.NET is running over every single server request made to the system, such as calling static files like jquery-1.5.js etc.

Embed Sitecore in an existing ASP.NET site

Sometimes I’m asked can we quickly embed Sitecore in our existing ASP.NET site because of various reasons or it’s just a quick way to get it up and working while slowly migrating there site over. Well this you can do but you have to make a few small modifications to get it working or else you’ll run into some small headaches.
PS: This is a very very quick wiki article so don’t mind my rushing

Speed up Azure Site

When you deploy onto the Microsoft Azure cloud platform you may have noticed that by default the system will not produce cached or compressed output for the user. This has been designed this way to assist those developers that well don’t know to much about deployments and site optimizations (Not having a go, sometimes you don’t need to worry about this as its someone elses problem).

Sitecore Cryptography Error

I seems to be getting this error more and more when loading a fresh instance of Sitecore on my system as well as on Windows Server 2008, now have I modified anything, well nope nothing.

The error is listed below “System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: The system cannot find the file specified.“

Umbraco Force Redirect

In Umbraco I had a need to force the user to be redirected to another page, the easiest way is to create a asp.net control (macro) and put it on the template and there you go. But why this is expensive as it has to go all the way through the umbraco context which uses additional resources. So how do I get around this….

jQuery Style ASP.NET Form Validators

I cam across this great little blog about overriding the standard asp.net validators with jquery validators.

Have a read: http://www.delphicsage.com/home/blog.aspx?d=545