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Sitecore

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Authorize Sitecore JSS Layout Services with Azure Identity in Micro-frontends Implementation

If you have Sitecore Headless Services publicly accessible and you are willing to authorize them with Azure AD. Here's how we achieved it in Microfrontend implementation. Photo by Mohammad Rahmani [https://unsplash.com/@afgprogrammer?utm_source=ghost&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=api-credit] / Unsplash [https://unsplash.

Thoughts about Sitecore Hackathon 2022 participation

On the 4th of March 2022, I have teamed up with my colleagues in Omnia and we participated in the Sitecore Hackathon event 2022. In this blog post, I'm writing about the event experience, from the signup process to the submission and the takeaways. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is Sitecore

Securing Response Headers Based on Sitecore Helix Conventions

Overview HTTP security headers provide another layer of security by helping to mitigate attacks and security vulnerabilities. Missing security headers help the attacker to launch advanced attacks by clubbing multiple individual ones. It is important to add the security headers, in my application I added the following headers: * X-XSS-Protection * Strict-Transport-Security

Sitecore: Remove Height and Width Attributes on Images Using MVC helper

When you render an image using Sitecore MVC field helper, Sitecore retrieves the height and width attribute with the IMG tag. Example - Sitecore Field helper @Html.Sitecore().Field("ImageFieldName", item) The result <img src="/-/media/images/content/teasers/upstream.ashx?h=242&

Sitecore Encrypt Connection Strings in App_Config

One of our clients asked to encrypt the connection strings that used for Sitecore. The reason is if someone compromised the CD servers in the DMZ, they will not find any plain text credentials for SQL users. You can achieve this by using ASP.NET IIS Registration Tool to encrypt/

Sitecore Habitat/Helix with Glass Mapper

I have used Sitecore Habitat ( you can call it the Modular Architecture) on the latest Sitecore project I have worked on. It was really a good experience for me. I can say that this project was one of my favorite Sitecore projects of all time. The code was very clean,

Getting Started with Sitecore Virtual Users

What is Sitecore Virtual Users? Sitecore has the ability to create custom authentication without having the users saved in the core database, In other words you don't have to save the users information in Sitecore database. Sitecore Virtual Users are created in the memory level, Sitecore does not

Sitecore Deployment Faced Issue

Today I deployed our Sitecore development project to the staging environment, and once I completed all of the regular Sitecore deployment steps. I faced the following error: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. This may have occurred because all pooled connections were

Updating Sitecore Social Connected Module 2.1

The problem Check this post [unsafe:javascript:;]before you start with this one, so you can have an idea of what is the problem. In short, this module uses deprecated facebook keys, and these keys are hardcoded in the DLLs of this application. This is not a problem with the

Social Connected Module: Updating DLLs on the FLY (using ildasm and ilasm)

The issue Lately, I worked on the Social connected module 2.1 and integrated it with Sitecore 7.2. After installing the module, and fixing this known issue [unsafe:javascript:;]that makes it compatible with Sitecore 7.2, I was shocked that this module is not working, and it was