Author Archives: cprakash

About cprakash

A developer, passionate about .Net, Architecture and Security.

Sitecore extranet authentication with OpenIdConnect

Posted on December 30, 2015 by cprakash

Beginning of this year, I wrote about how to make ClaimsIdentity work with Sitecore, after that I tried integrating Sitecore extranet authentication with OpenId Connect but had little trouble as I was using Owin based pipelines to perform the integration … Continue reading →

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Sitecore with ClaimsIdentity

Posted on February 2, 2015 by cprakash

This post is an adventures experience to explore if Sitecore can work with ClaimsIdentity and make my extranet authentication Claims aware, with little experiment I could able to get both application (extranet) and Sitecore working but it requires more testing … Continue reading →

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Sitecore MVC Form Post – Simplified

Posted on January 12, 2015 by cprakash

During Sitecore User Virtual Summit 2014 Kern Herskind presented Sitecore MVC implementation and discussed on various aspect of it. It took me to surprise during discussion on MVC Form Post when I found that my Form Post article was listed … Continue reading →

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Exception Handling in Sitecore MVC

Posted on December 29, 2014 by cprakash

This is 3rd article in series of Framework for Sitecore MVC development. Source code for this article is available on github. Pluggable Mvc Areas Implementation Form Post in Siteocre MVC Exception Handling Dependency Injection – Container agnostic Asynchronous Logging – … Continue reading →

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Sitecore 8: Fix MVC area execution and registration

Posted on December 20, 2014 by cprakash

I am upgrading my Sitecore Mvc Framework to Sitecore 8 and it broke due to two changes in Sitecore 8. Tag Injection Apps introduced in Sitecore 7.5 Social Client area introduced in Sitecore 8 Both applications are designed as MVC … Continue reading →

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Form Post in Sitecore MVC

Posted on November 3, 2014 by cprakash

Update – 01/12/2015- There is a simplified version available here — https://cprakash.com/2015/01/12/sitecore-mvc-form-post-simplified/ This post is 2nd in series of the proposed framework to solve some of the common problem in Sitecore MVC implementation. In this post I am going to … Continue reading →

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Sitecore with MVC Areas as pluggable Module

Posted on October 27, 2014 by cprakash

This post is first in series to describe the features provided by framework for Sitecore Mvc. For complete list and detail please see main post. I have been working on Sitecore Mvc since its Technical Preview version and we were … Continue reading →

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Development Framework for Sitecore MVC

Posted on October 25, 2014 by cprakash

Source code for this framework is available on GitHub It’s been 3 year I have been working on Sitecore Mvc (6.6 & 7.2) and had seen some of the bad and best enterprise framework laid out for Sitecore development. With … Continue reading →

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GlassMapper with Unity as DI Container

Posted on September 14, 2014 by cprakash

Default GlassMapper demo application uses CastleWindsor as DI container to resolve the dependencies in the runtime. This is also documented as part of the 1st tutorials on glass mapper site. There is another implementation with SimpleInjector but in situation if you … Continue reading →

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Sitecore Form Authentication Cookie Renewal and Sliding Expiration

Posted on September 12, 2014 by cprakash

Problem Implement Session Timeout feature in Sitecore and support default form authentication behavior of authentication cookie renewal/expiration and sliding expiration. I looked around the login method and it was called in a standard manner with a call to Sitecore’s Security … Continue reading →

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