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At a Glance; Contents; Foreword; About the Authors; About the Contributor; About the Technical Reviewers; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Getting Started; What Is Sitecore?; Developer Platforms versus Portal Solutions; Sitecore's Key Features and Capabilities; Channel Layer; Management Layer; Sitecore AIDA Layer; Sitecore Database Layer; Integration Layer; Infrastructure and Services Architecture Options; Basic Deployment; Highly Available Deployment; Cloud-Based xDB Deployment; A Tour of the Sitecore Admin Interface; What's New in Sitecore 8?; The Sitecore Hierarchy
TemplatesContent; Layouts and Components; Setting Up Your Development Environment; Tools Every Sitecore Developer Needs; Setting Up SQL Server; Installing Sitecore; Installing Sitecore with an EXE; Installing Sitecore with Sitecore Instance Manager; Summary; Chapter 2: Building Your First Component; Building a View Rendering; Working with Layouts and Placeholders; Creating a Component; Deploying to Sitecore; Adding a Component to a New Page; Building a Controller Rendering; Controller Renderings versus View Renderings; Creating a Controller Rendering; Summary
Chapter 3: Data Templates and ContentData Template Fields; Field Sections; Field Types; Custom Field Types; Field Sources; Field Versioning; Field Validation; Custom Field Validators; Data Template Inheritance; Working with Standard Values; Configuring Default Values; Configuring Insert Options; Templates and Configurations; Creating Our Branch Templates; Content Management Fundamentals; Where Do You Manage Content?; Architecting Your Content Tree; Managing Rich Media; Content Personalization; Content Versioning; Content Approval and Publishing Workflows; Content Optimization
Deleting and Archiving ContentContent Cloning; Multilingual Content Translations; Summary; Chapter 4: Back-End Dev Architectures; The Model-View-Controller Design Pattern; Sitecore Modular Architecture; Setting Up Your Solution; Stubbing Out a Web Project; Creating Your First Module; Deploying Your Code; Summary; Chapter 5: Improving the Design with Patterns; Refactoring: Incorporating the Repository Pattern; Refactoring: Incorporating a Service Layer Pattern; Refactoring: Incorporating Object-Relational Mapping; Refactoring: Incorporating Generics
Refactoring: Incorporating Inversion of ControlSummary; Chapter 6: Front-End Dev Techniques; Presentation and Applying Layouts; Razor, CSS, JavaScript, and Gulp; Programming Razor and Forms; Using Glass.Mapper to Make Content Editable; Using Html Helpers; Calling These Methods from the Controller; Getting CSS and JS on a Page; CSS and JS Minification with Gulp; AngularJS; Summary; Chapter 7: Unit Testing Sitecore; Getting Started Unit Testing; Making Tests Easier to Read with FluentAssertions; Creating Dummy Data, the Easy Way, with AutoFixture; Isolating Tests with Moq
TemplatesContent; Layouts and Components; Setting Up Your Development Environment; Tools Every Sitecore Developer Needs; Setting Up SQL Server; Installing Sitecore; Installing Sitecore with an EXE; Installing Sitecore with Sitecore Instance Manager; Summary; Chapter 2: Building Your First Component; Building a View Rendering; Working with Layouts and Placeholders; Creating a Component; Deploying to Sitecore; Adding a Component to a New Page; Building a Controller Rendering; Controller Renderings versus View Renderings; Creating a Controller Rendering; Summary
Chapter 3: Data Templates and ContentData Template Fields; Field Sections; Field Types; Custom Field Types; Field Sources; Field Versioning; Field Validation; Custom Field Validators; Data Template Inheritance; Working with Standard Values; Configuring Default Values; Configuring Insert Options; Templates and Configurations; Creating Our Branch Templates; Content Management Fundamentals; Where Do You Manage Content?; Architecting Your Content Tree; Managing Rich Media; Content Personalization; Content Versioning; Content Approval and Publishing Workflows; Content Optimization
Deleting and Archiving ContentContent Cloning; Multilingual Content Translations; Summary; Chapter 4: Back-End Dev Architectures; The Model-View-Controller Design Pattern; Sitecore Modular Architecture; Setting Up Your Solution; Stubbing Out a Web Project; Creating Your First Module; Deploying Your Code; Summary; Chapter 5: Improving the Design with Patterns; Refactoring: Incorporating the Repository Pattern; Refactoring: Incorporating a Service Layer Pattern; Refactoring: Incorporating Object-Relational Mapping; Refactoring: Incorporating Generics
Refactoring: Incorporating Inversion of ControlSummary; Chapter 6: Front-End Dev Techniques; Presentation and Applying Layouts; Razor, CSS, JavaScript, and Gulp; Programming Razor and Forms; Using Glass.Mapper to Make Content Editable; Using Html Helpers; Calling These Methods from the Controller; Getting CSS and JS on a Page; CSS and JS Minification with Gulp; AngularJS; Summary; Chapter 7: Unit Testing Sitecore; Getting Started Unit Testing; Making Tests Easier to Read with FluentAssertions; Creating Dummy Data, the Easy Way, with AutoFixture; Isolating Tests with Moq