Sean G. Wright articles - 82 total
Kentico Xperience Design Patterns: Page Type Restrictions
Learn a modern approach to defining and organizing content in Kentico Xperience with Page Type restrictions.
Kentico Xperience Design Patterns: Content Hierarchies
Learn a modern approach to defining and organizing content in Kentico Xperience with Content Hierarchies.
Kentico Xperience Design Patterns: Page Type Modeling
Learn a modern approach to defining and organizing content in Kentico Xperience, starting with Page Types.
Exploring Xperience By Kentico: Introductions
Let's explore the new ideas and features in Kentico's next generation DXP product, Xperience by Kentico.
Bits of Xperience: Displaying Rich Text After a Form Submission
Learn how to customize Kentico Xperience to display Rich Text content after a form submission so marketing professionals can provide a "richer" experience for visitors to your site.
Kentico Xperience Design Patterns: Handling Failures - The Result Monad
Learn how we can use the Result monad to clearly model failures and handle errors in our applications.
Kentico Xperience Design Patterns: Registering Xperience Dependencies
Learn why we should register our Kentico Xperience dependencies where they are consumed, not where they are authored, to create more understandable code, flexible applications, and reusable libraries.
Kentico Xperience Design Patterns: Protecting Hard Coded Identifiers
Learn why we hard code identifiers in our Kentico Xperience applications, and how to use and protect that data from deletion to guaranteed content and data quality.
Bits of Xperience: Reducing CLS when Rendering Images
Learn how to reduce Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) when rendering images in Kentico Xperience applications
Kentico Xperience Design Patterns: Handling Failures - Return Errors, Don't Throw Them
Learn the problems with modeling errors as exceptions and why we should return errors from our C# methods instead
Kentico Xperience Xplorations: Using Tailwind CSS with Kentico Xperience
Why might we want to use Tailwind CSS with our Kentico Xperience sites? How do we integrate it? And, what pitfalls should we look out for?
Kentico Xperience Design Patterns: Handling Failures - Centralized Exception Handling
Learn how to deal with failed operations in Kentico Xperience applications using centralized exception handling
Bits of Xperience: Supercharged Page Custom Data Fields
Learn how to combine the power of Page Type fields and Page "Custom Data" to add a new dimension to your content modeling architecture
Kentico Xperience Design Patterns: Good Layout Hygiene
Learn how to maintain a clean and focused _Layout.cshtml file using Razor Partials and View Components.
Bits of Xperience: The Hidden Cost of IPageUrlRetriever.Retrieve
Learn why we need to be careful when using convenient APIs that hide their true cost and how you can optimize the retrieval of Page URLs in Kentico Xperience.
Kentico Xperience Design Patterns: Modeling Missing Data - The Maybe Monad
Learn why the Maybe Monad might be the best way to model missing data in our Kentico Xperience applications.
Kentico Xperience Design Patterns: Multiple Types Per File
Learn why C# developers separate all their types into individual files and when it might be appropriate to do the opposite in our Kentico Xperience applications.
Kentico Xperience Design Patterns: Modeling Missing Data with The Null Object Pattern
Learn about the Null Object Pattern and how to use it in a Kentico Xperience application to model our content accurately
Kentico Xperience: MVC Widget Experiments Part 3 - Unused Widgets Section
Learn how to create a simple container for Widgets we don't want to delete, but also don't want displayed in the Page
Kentico Xperience: MVC Widget Experiments Part 2 - Page Specific Marketing Tags with Widgets
Learn how to use Page Builder Widgets to inject HTML Tags outside of the Page's View and into the Layout
Kentico Xperience Design Patterns: MVC is Dead, Long Live PTVC
Learn about replacing the MVC design pattern with the pattern of combining Page Templates and View Components to maintain a separation of Content and Design
Kentico Xperience Design Patterns: Modeling Missing Data with Nullable Reference Types
Learn how to handle a content model with optional or missing data using nullable reference types
Kentico Xperience Xplorations: Why We Should Be Using AlpineJs
Learn why AlpineJs might be the ideal JavaScript library for server-rendered sites like Kentico Xperience.
Kentico Xperience Design Patterns: Good Startup.cs Hygiene
Learn how to maintain a clean and focused Startup.cs with a some design patterns and extension methods.
Bits of Xperience: Localizing XHR Requests in Kentico Xperience 13.0
Learn how to pass the Page's culture to any XHR requests it makes back to your Kentico Xperience API
Kentico Xperience Xplorations: Determining a Request's Page Builder Mode
Let's explore how a request in an Xperience application determines the mode of the Page Builder and Preview features.
Kentico Xperience Xplorations: Quickly Debugging Queries in a Console Application
Let's explore the fastest way to quickly iterate and troubleshoot Kentico Xperience data access queries
Kentico Xperience: MVC Widget Experiments Part 1 - Widgets And Related Pages
Learn how to easily reuse content from around your site with MVC Widets and Related Pages
Kentico CMS Quick Tip: Using Font Awesome Icons for Custom Page Types
Learn how to add the Font Awesome 5 icon set to the Xperience Content Management application so even more helpful icons are available for our Custom Page Types
Bits of Xperience: Developer Community Resources
Discover all the best places to learn about Kentico Xperience and engage with the welcoming developer community.