TDS: Resolving "Duplicate" Error in Template Folder Items
After upgrading Sitecore from version 8.2.7 to 10.3.1 I encountered an unexpected complication when trying to import a Template into my Project's Solution; the Feature, Foundation and Project folders would show up as "Duplicate" from the Get Sitecore Items TDS menu, making it impossible to grab new content: Clearing the TDS cache, cleaning the Visual Studio solution and […]
GDPR and disabling Sitecore Tracker lead to Exception in Sitecore.Analytics.Media.MediaRequestEventHandler.OnMediaRequest
As many Europe-based businesses we had to comply with GDPR legislation, which requires us to not track analytical data from visitors without their consent. When it comes to Sitecore 8.x, this requires to implicitly stop the Sitecore Tracker from initializing unless the corresponding Conseny Cookie has been accepted: So, problem solved right? Well, not exactly, […]
The type initializer for 'Sitecore.Install.Serialization.IOUtils' threw an exception.
Today I've been having this problem out of the blue: "The type initializer for 'Sitecore.Install.Serialization.IOUtils' threw an exception." Searching for this error in relation to Sitecore usually points to Newtonsoft.Json.dll as the culprit, but in my case it was Mvp.Xml.dll, that some NuGet or somesuch upgraded to a higher version thus causing this error. I reverted […]
Custom fields in Solr 7.2.1: how to reuse your old schema.xml file from previous versions
My Sitecore 8.1 solution has a considerable number of Custom fields; after the upgrade to Sitecore 9.1 (and Solr 7.2.1), none of them worked the way they did, returning an "unknown field" error for any field that used a custom <dynamicField>. What I ended up doing, was adding the node under <config> in […]