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Sitecore 8.1 - New Feature for MVC Areas to support easy multisite configuration.

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Sitecore 8.1 - New Feature for MVC Areas to support easy multisite configuration. For Sitecore Inroduces MVC Areas as Out-of-the-box feature in Sitecore 8.1 by adding the Resolve Area pipeline and adding a new field in the controller rendering as "Area". I've tried to explain how it work. Since the inception of MVC in Sitecore 6.6 there has been lot of enhancements but this one is surely going to help you scale your Sitecore Implementation without extending any processors or pipelines. Hope this helps. :)  How it works For each MVC rendering, the pipeline  mvc.renderRendering  is called. In the  Sitecore.Mvc.config  there is a new processor  ResolveArea configured for this pipeline. Within the processor configuration, you can configure a list of area resolving strategies, which are responsible for resolving the area for the current rendering: Each strategy is called after each other, until one strategy can resolve the area. The following image shows how the co
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Installing Sitecore 8.0 and MongoDB using Powershell

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Installing Sitecore 8.0 and MongoDB using Powershell This quick guide demonstrates the fastest way to get up and running with Sitecore 8.0. It assumes you’ve never installed Sitecore 8 (or 7.5) before but have used Sitecore 7.2 or earlier, i.e. you don’t have MongoDB installed and configured. Prerequisites: Ensure you have the following applications installed: SQL Server 2014, SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1, or SQL Express Editions of these databases  installed IIS 8.5, IIS 8.0, IIS 7.5 or IIS 7.0 depending on which version of Windows you’re running. .NET Framework 4.5 Source:  Sitecore 8 Installation Guide Steps to install Sitecore 8 Download  this PowerShell script  and execute it by right-clicking it and selecting  Run with PowerShell . It’s a slightly modified version of the script found here , which automatically downloads MongoDB, installs it as a Windows Service and starts it – without any user interventio
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Installing Sitecore Commerce Server 8 and Sample Site

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Installing Sitecore Commerce Server 8 This guide aims at giving you a one-stop guide on how to setup Sitecore Commerce with MongoDB and Sitecore 8 from the beginning to allow you to commence development with Sitecore Commerce Server 8. There are many blogs and documentation around this and different ways to do this lengthy process but none of it seems clear. I've tried to make the steps in order and simpler. I've used Sitecore documentation and references from many blogs to compile this documentation. This guide will assume you have a fresh install of IIS (with  Default Web Site  intact, otherwise create it), SQL Server 2012, Visual Studio 2013, and nothing else. It has been tested on a Windows 8.1 machine. Install Sitecore and MongoDB by following my guide to  Installing Sitecore 8.0 and MongoDB . This guide has been tested with Sitecore 8.0 revision 150621, so I encourage you to use this version. For the rest of this guide I will assume you have Sitecore
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