I was really thrilled to see that Sitecore 7 will support coded datsources. This is a feature we already implemented at our company in earlier sitecore versions (kudos for the idea for my colleague and fellow MVP Remco van Toor). Coded datasources are very powerful and are frequently used in our company. For example in our latest project we use the sitecore enterprise ecommerce module. Customers are located in the ecommerce database but we had the need to render them as a More Info »

Recently I got a question from one of our partners for a field in which a user can select multiple images and also have a overview of the selected images. Of course there are a few available fieldtypes but there was a requirement to select the images in one dialog window. A example of this was the TreelistEx field, but that field only shows the images as tiny icons with the name of the image next to it. So I made a More Info »

At the moment I’m creating a custom field for tagging content items. I prototyped my custom field in html using JQuery. But when I wanted to convert this to the actual custom field I ran into a problem. As you might know Sitecore uses the Prototype library for all of it’s javascript. And prototype uses the same dollar sign for all of its functions and variables as JQuery does. But JQuery provides a noConflict function where you can reassign the default $. More Info »

These days streaming video on the web is quite popular. In almost every project we do at Evident Interactive the customer wants to embed video in content items. Off course they can do that by copy-pasting the embedding code in a Sitecore field or in the rich-text editor. But that is not the most user-friendly method. I thought it would be nice if an end-user could just copy-paste the url of the page and let an custom control do the rest. So More Info »