The path "{E18F4BC6-46A2-4842-898B-B6613733F06F}" was not found.
You might get this error when setting up a new Sitecore instance somewhere. The item in question is a /sitecore/layout/Devices item that Sitecore needs in order to operate normally. There can be several reasons why this is happening: You are running Sitecore up to 9.x, and your master / web databases are corrupted, and they miss this […]
XConnect on Windows 11: ERR_CONNECTION_RESET error when using HTTPS
Problem This week I moved my local development Sitecore 10 instance to a new laptop running Windows 11; all seemed well, except for XConnect, that mysteriously only worked without HTTPS. I would constantly get ERR_CONNECTION_RESET, with nothing being recorded in either XConnect, IIS or Events log: All the while the TLS Certificate was reported invalid. […]
CS0012: The type 'System.Object' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced.
I was setting up my Sitecore instance(s) on a new laptop, when this error reared its ugly head and kept me stuck for a good hour. Looking online there are many reasons why this showed up, but in my case, all I had to do was adding this line under configuration/system.web/compilation/assemblies: <add assembly="netstandard, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51"/> […]
Error when deleting a language in Sitecore: "Could not parse the language"
While decommissioning a section of a website in a language that we no longer support, I found myself in need of removing the language altogether; trying to delete the item, however, resulted in the following error: Could not parse the language Note that a custom language name must be on the form A brief headscratch […]
Random error after upgrading some NuGet packages: "You must add a reference to assembly 'netstandard, Version=2.0.0.0"
Just a very quick write-up on this as it kept me busy for a couple of hours looking for a solution. After upgrading a number of NuGet packages (Microsoft ASPNet WebApi 2.2 Core Libraries, Microsoft ASPNet MVC, HtmlAgilityPack), my perfectly working Sitecore local development setup stopped working, instead throwing the exception CS0012: The type 'System.Object' […]