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

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