Author: João Neto

João Neto is a Sitecore MVP, a Sitecore Hackathon 2017 winner and a Certified Sitecore Developer.

Publishing Service: Enable “Debug” logging level

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The Publishing Service is a module that replaces Sitecore publishing functionality. This module increases the speed for publishing large volumes of items and improves the user experience.

As the Publishing Service runs on a separate process to the Sitecore CM instance, it contains its own logging file located at the (PublishingServiceInstallationFolder)/logs folder. By default, it only logs data on the “Information” logging level.

In this post, you will learn how to set the “Debug” logging level to get more information.
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A simple trick to get more information out of the Sitecore logs

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Recently, I was struggling with one particular Sitecore site that was taking too much time to load in my development environment. Sometimes I would think that it just got stuck and then I would try restarting the application pool or even running an iisreset.

This article shows a quick tip if you want to get more out of the Sitecore logs by doing a simple trick: enabling the DEBUG level.

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A Visual Studio Hack for Sitecore Developers #1

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If you use static classes or structs to store Sitecore IDs, sometimes you just copy and paste an existing class/struct and replace the copied IDs with new ones. Having to replace one ID is easy. It turns out sometimes you have to clean 10, 20 or maybe 50 IDs, which is repetitive and time consuming.

In this article I show you how to quickly replace those IDs with empty strings.

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