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TDS unable to sync with Sitecore

The other day, I suddenly ran into an issue that my Sitecore site could not synchronize with my development environment. TDS kept popping up the error dialog saying that TDS’s web service was

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Case insensitive sorting by using Solr in Sitecore

In my latest project, I faced an issue that the sorting on a page stopped working properly after the solution switched the search engine from Lucene to Solr.The page sorted the items by the items’

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Consider Segmented List for Sitecore EXM

Since Sitecore 8, EXM uses List Manager to manage the recipient lists. The List Manager provides two kinds of lists, i.e. contact list and segmented List. A contact list contains a static numbers of

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Exploit Sitecore EXM Subscription Message Type

In Sitecore EXM, when you click the Create button in the navigation pane, you will see three message types (one-time message, subscription message and triggered message). In the one-time and triggered

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Sitecore Nuget Package Generator

I like using Nuget package to reference Sitecore DLLs in my solutions. There are nice posts discussing how to do it, for example

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Forward Sitecore logs to NLog

In my current project, I need to use an in-house logging system that was built on NLog in the Sitecore project. Since Sitecore uses log4net for logging and we don’t want to replace all of it with

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Send a triggered message in EXM

The biggest change in Sitecore Email Experience Manager (EXM) module was that it introduced using the contact in xDB instead of the Sitecore User to represent the recipient. This gives a lot

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Walkthrough: Adding a custom button in Sitecore Rich Text Editor in Sitecore 8

Walkthrough: Adding a custom button in Sitecore Rich Text Editor in Sitecore 8I was asked by a client to add a custom button in Sitecore Rich Text Editor. The client’s website has many global

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Sitecore SPEAK - Could not select row in ListControl

I use ListControl from SPEAK a lot and most of the time I use self-defined datasource components for ListControl's items. This week, I bind a ListControl to a new data source as usual. Just an

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Sitecore SPEAK - MultiSelectList

In Sitecore SPEAK, I use ListControl to bind a data source and display items in that data source. The ListControl has selectedItem and selectedItemId attributes so that I can easily access the

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