Matthew Dresser

Engineering Notes on CMS, DXP & Web Architecture

Real-world lessons from building and evolving digital platforms, with side explorations into EV conversion.

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Images Broken after upgrading to Sitecore 7.5 Initial Release

Media library items named with characters listed in encodeNameReplacements can get broken following upgrade to Sitecore 7.5.

CMS Sitecore

Sitecore MVC Presentation Concepts

Overview of Layouts, View Renderings, Controller Renderings, Item Renderings, Models and Controllers in Sitecore MVC

CMS Sitecore

Building a Single Page Application in Sitecore MVC

Building a 'proof of concept' single page application in ASP.NET MVC with Sitecore.

CMS Sitecore SPA

How to make your Sublayouts talk to each other

This article describes how to pass data between Sublayouts using the Sitecore event pool. This is a great way to help build a flexible solution from loosely coupled, re-usable components.

CMS Sitecore

How to Get the DataSource of a Sublayout

Code needed to get the datasource item set for a sublayout.

CMS Sitecore

Top Tips to Tame your Templates

Top tips on template design

CMS Sitecore

Sitecore Template Inheritance Best Practices

Advice on template inheritance in Sitecore and how to organise for better reuse and usbility.

CMS Sitecore