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 »

During an Sitecore .Net development training I was ask if there is a fieldtype for an external link. The answer (of course) is; “Yes, general link”. With general link you can create a external link and many other types of links.  But what if you want to create a field in which the business users can only add an external link? You can easily create this with Sitecore (without any coding).   Create the External Link only Fieldtype Fieldtypes are defined in More Info »