Yogesh Patel [Patel - Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

Yogesh Patel has been programming since the year 2000, and has been working in the IT industry for over ten years on a variety of technologies. He was mainly involved in Sitecore or .NET-based development in the Indian offices of US and UK-based organizations. He has worked at Investis Ltd as a technical architect and has lead a Sitecore development team. Yogesh has held a number of positions and has a lot of responsibilities, having worked at Investis since 2009. He has been recognized as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Sitecore for 2014, 2015, and 2016.

As a developer, Yogesh enjoys learning new programming techniques, practices, and tactics. He has worked on .NET since 2005 and Sitecore since 2009. He has also spent plenty of time developing in C, VC++, MATLAB, VB6, ASP, Java, PHP, AppleScript, SQL, and MySQL, but his current focus is on .NETespecially Sitecore. His blog can be found at http://sitecoreblog.patelyogesh.in. You can find Yogesh on Twitter at @patelyogesh_in, as well as LinkedIn (yspatel) and Facebook (patelyogesh.in).

Avni, my beloved wife and my parents, I thank you for your love, support, and encouragement, without which I would have been unable to carry on this endeavor. I'd particularly like to thank Pavel Nezhencev for reviewing this book. I'd also like to thank my colleagues at Investis, Muktesh Mehta and Siddhi Kabra, for supporting me throughout the project.

Pavel Nezhencev is an experienced .NET/JS web developer working in the Denmark department of Creuna, which specializes in creating web platforms for businesses of any scale. Pavel has a bachelor's degree in software engineering from Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Ukraine. He worked for five years with Sitecore and Episerver systems and successfully launched several solutions on these platforms.

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Preface

Sitecore Experience Platform (XP), which is more than a content management system (CMS), is global leader in experience management. It continues to be very popular due to its robust framework, continuous innovations, and ease of implementations compared to other CMS available. Developers love Sitecore for its flexibility, scalability, and power. It has great out-of-the-box capabilities, but one of its great strengths is the ease of extending these capabilities.

Sitecore Cookbook for Developers is intended to provide a surprising amount of recipes to use out-of-the-box core capabilities and customize them. It also focuses on helping developers that are new to Sitecore to achieve maximum productivity and satisfaction with minimum efforts. It also includes tips, tricks, and best practices for working with the platform.

What this book covers

, Basic Presentation Components , focuses on creating information architecture and presenting it using out-of-the-box components and different Model-View-Controller (MVC) renderings. It also shows how effectively you can utilize out-of-the-box components to provide greater ease and flexibility for future enhancements.

, Extending Presentation Components , gives examples for extending out-of-the-box components to develop multilingual and multidevice websites, integrate the content with external systems, and provide easier content management for content owners.

, Customizing the User Interface Framework , demonstrates you how to create new interfaces or extend existing interfaces, using different framework components. It also provides some recipes to please content authors.

, Leveraging the Sitecore Backend , gets you completely involved in Sitecore backend architecture. This chapter gives you a brief tour of different the features to extend the core engine using pipelines, processors, events, handlers, hooks, jobs, schedulers, and so on.

, Making Content Management More Efficient , shows you different tricks and techniques to manage the content in a better way and provide better usability with the use of backend and frontend frameworks and different functionalities such as dictionary, validations, rule engine, Rich Text Editor, Item Web API, and so on.

, Working with Media