What Chrome 80's SameSite Cookie changes mean...With roughly two-thirds of the world-wide browser share, Chrome is easily the most popular web-browser in the world, so when they announce that they're changing how cookies work, and that it might break things, that's a big deal.What are they doing?For a while now, cookies have supported a property called 'SameSite'. This allows a developer control of when a cookie should be sent to a page, and it's an ...

I had a requirement on a recent project to download a .CSV from within Sitecore User Manager. Basically, it was to download all users within a particular domain into a .csv file. The 'download' bit proved tricky, ...

Setting the Secure Flag So, a Sitecore site I've been working on recently underwent a penetration test, which turned up an interesting item. The ASP.NET_SessionId and SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE cookies aren't set with ...

Today I faced an issue with Web Forms for Marketers (WFFM). We had taken a copy of a customer's system and were trying to test some changes we'd made to it. This involved making sure that the system sent email ...

I was really impressed with what we were able to achieve in a recent project by simply leveraging the facets functionality of the Sitecore Lucene and SOLR integration. We used this functionality to produce a list of ...

On a recent project, we hit upon an interesting problem - the SQL indexing uniquifier.It seems to be one of those deep, dark SQL secrets that's been tucked away down the back of the sofa and forgotten about over ...

The base result item for the Sitecore content search is called SearchResultItem and is located with the Sitecore.ContentSearch.SearchTypes namespace, this by default has quite a fair few useful properties attached to ...

If you have had the luxury of getting your hands on the Sitecore content search, I'm confident that you'll join me when I say that it can be described using one word..."AMAZING"!  There are many ways to approach ...

Recently I've been looking at implementing caches in Sitecore, and in my current project I've had to do this a few times; let's have a look at my general pattern. I've just been caching strings; although other objects ...

IIS is, by default, a bit too damn chatty, which isn't what you want if you're trying to harden your server. You can check this with a site like SecurityHeaders.io [https://securityheaders.io/], which will review all ...

Located in the web config is a section called this contains a load of events that are fired when things happen within Sitecore. The common one I see Sitecore solutions using is the item:saved event. Hopefully this ...