Many custom applications require an email component, either for workflow, notification or error logging. During the development and testing phase, programmers need to be able to test whether or not the application will actually send the email. Instead of installing an actual SMTP server on Windows 7*, you can configure IIS 7 SMTP Email.

*Note: Windows 7 no longer supports the Microsoft SMTP service, so if you still want to install an SMTP server on Windows 7 you would have to install a third-party application.

There are many blogging platforms that allow individuals to express themselves. The list includes, but is not limited to the following: WordPress, Spaces, Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, etc. While these platforms are great for the technology and idea specific enthusiast, these platforms present great challenges for companies. The top areas were these platforms impact enterprises are brand, compliance, and contiguous content.

Implementing search on web sites is a very common occurrence and this article is written to present a very simple approach to getting your Sitecore web site going using Lucene.net and Sitecore 6 or higher. Our approach will be the following: building the search box control, build the search results control and implement the Lucene index for the web database.

This is a continuation of our Implementing Lucene search with Sitecore CMS example. In this section we will build the search results control (sublayout).

This is the last part of the three part example of Implementing Lucene search with Sitecore CMS. In this section we will add our custom index to the Sitecore web.config.

Using jquery or some javacript framework is almost a given in website development. To avoid the dreaded "Object Required" error message, always include the "$(document).ready(function(){ });" script on the pages using jquery.

The loopback securty check is a Windows feature that prevents access to a web application using a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) if an attempt to access it takes place from a machine that hosts that application. The end result is a 401.1 Access Denied from the web server and a logon failure in the event log. This security feature works well to prevent a server attack via reflection. However, this feature also interferes with the alternate accessing mappling feature of SharePoint Server [MOSS].

Anyone familiar with ASP.NET webforms development is aware of the fact that you can’t have multiple forms presented on the sample page. In general, this is okay. However, most portals or CMS applications have their ASP.NET form and the widget that you would like to add needs that have its own ASP.NET postback processing.