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	<title>Mark van Aalst</title>
	<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net</link>
	<description>blogging about ASP.Net and web development related techniques</description>
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		<title>Using JQuery in custom fields</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the moment I&#8217;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&#8217;s javascript. And prototype uses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net/2010/02/18/using-jquery-in-custom-fields/</link>
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		<title>Restricting FieldEditor to specific template based items</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Sitecore 6.2 it is possible to integrate FieldEditors. These are command which enables users edit item settings when they work in the page editor. Personally I think it is a great option when you want editors to only work within the Page Editor, and still let them edit settings. For the blog module that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net/2010/02/17/restricting-fieldeditor-to-specific-template-based-items/</link>
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		<title>Blog module update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I released the stable version of the EviBlog module. You can download the module from the Sitecore Shared Source. The module works on all Sitecore solutions based on version 6.2. The module now includes the following features: Inline Editing support Windows Live Writer integration Pingback RSS (using the Sitecore 6.2 Integrated RSS) Tagging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net/2009/11/27/blog-module-update/</link>
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		<title>New Sitecore 6 blog module released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last couple of months I have been working on a new blog module for Sitecore 6.2. It started as a small module just for my own educational purpose but ended up as one of the largest modules I created. The module is a complete rewritten blog module, based upon the functionality of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net/2009/11/07/new-sitecore-6-blog-module-released/</link>
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		<title>Sitecore released version 6.2!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Sitecore released version 6.2. According to the change log their are several new (cool) features. Sitecore client RSS feeds for items in workflows Built-in support for syndicating items using the RSS format. WebDAV support in the media library A new File Drop Area field type has been introduced A new Word Field has been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net/2009/10/21/sitecore-released-version-6-2/</link>
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		<title>Sitecore roadmap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I was catching up with some RSS Feeds and Twitter messages, when I noticed that SPN (Sitecore Partner Network) is renewed. My compliments to the people behind the renewal, it looks so much better and it&#8217;s easier to find the information you&#8217;re looking for. Next one is SDN perhaps? I know I would appreciate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net/2009/10/20/sitecore-roadmap/</link>
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		<title>Creating a Item Editor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a blog module that I am developing I wanted to create an custom item editor. As you might know those are the &#8220;tabs&#8221; in the Content Editor. 1. Create a aspx file for the item editor user interface. 2. Select the core database in the desktop mode 3. Open the Content Editor and go to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net/2009/08/19/creating-a-item-editor/</link>
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		<title>New search for SDN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just noticed that Sitecore has greatly improved their search on SDN. You can now search through SDN, the shared source and Sitecore blogs.You even can filter your results by sdn sections, collections and datatypes. Only minor is that I can&#8217;t find a list of blogs they included in the search, so for that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net/2009/08/13/new-search-for-sdn/</link>
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		<title>Embedding video in Sitecore items</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net/2009/08/07/embedding-video-in-sitecore-items/</link>
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		<title>A fresh start</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I took a look at my blog and realized that I haven&#8217;t posted anything the last few months. I just couldn&#8217;t find the time to write anything. It has been quite a busy last half year filled with a project at work which required all my time, some personal issues and at last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net/2009/08/07/a-fresh-start/</link>
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		<title>The word is out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you might have noticed Sitecore announced the list of this years MVP&#8217;s. And I am proud to say that I am one of the thirteen MVP&#8217;s worldwide. I would like to congratulate Alistair Deneys, Christopher Wojciech, Julius Ganns, Justin Sjouw, Klaus Petersen, Mark Cassidy, Thomas Eldblom, Eric Briand, Andy Uzick, Glen McInnis, Alexander Pfandt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net/2009/01/07/the-word-is-out/</link>
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		<title>Custom search for Sitecore blogs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I use Google to search for Sitecore information I get a lot of marketing and CMS review results and a few results with detailed developer information. So I created a Google custom search engine to search through all Sitecore related blogs. Now I can search through sites I think are the most usefull for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net/2008/12/26/custom-search-for-sitecore-blogs/</link>
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		<title>Using fieldcontrols in a ListView</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you want to use a fieldcontrol like a Text, Link or Image control in a ListView you need to specify a datasource. By not specifying a datasource Sitecore looks at the current item. Which in a ListView is not the right one. So you need so set the datasource in code-behind or use an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net/2008/11/26/using-fieldcontrols-in-a-listview/</link>
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		<title>Maximum number of Sitecore query items</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had some problems with an Sitecore Query. It didn&#8217;t show more than an fixed number of items. After some hard thinking I rembered that there is a web.config key called Query.MaxItem which, you might guessed it, controls the maximum number of results of an Sitecore Query.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net/2008/11/05/maximum-number-of-sitecore-query-items/</link>
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		<title>Using profile with the Rich Text Editor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Regularly I see topics on the SDN5 forums where people ask if it is possible to use a custom Rich Text editor. Wll, yes it is. You can use so called profiles with the Rich Text editor. These profiles are stored in the Core database under /sitecore/system/Settings/Html Editor Profiles/. There are some default pre-configurated profile [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net/2008/11/05/using-profile-with-the-rich-text-editor/</link>
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		<title>Disable Sitecore publishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To avoid problems during the development of an Sitecore site it could be useful to disable the Sitecore Publishing method. This can be done by editing the following web.config rule: &#60;site name=&#8221;website&#8221; virtualFolder=&#8221;/&#8221; physicalFolder=&#8221;/&#8221; rootPath=&#8221;/sitecore/content&#8221; startItem=&#8221;/home&#8221; database=&#8221;web&#8221; domain=&#8221;extranet&#8221; allowDebug=&#8221;true&#8221; cacheHtml=&#8221;true&#8221; htmlCacheSize=&#8221;10MB&#8221; enablePreview=&#8221;true&#8221; enableWebEdit=&#8221;true&#8221; enableDebugger=&#8221;true&#8221; disableClientData=&#8221;false&#8221;/&#62; These are the settings of your current site. The database [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net/2008/10/20/disable-sitecore-publishing/</link>
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		<title>Sitecore 6 released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the people at Sitecore released the new version of their CMS. Sitecore 6 (previously called &#8220;Crestone&#8221;) has lots of improvements for either the end user as for dsevelopers. A few improvements are: Inline editing for editors .Net 2.0 Memebership support New and faster Content Editor New data types The new Page editor and much, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net/2008/07/01/sitecore-6-released/</link>
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		<title>Copy &amp; Paste Layout Settings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While developing a Sitecore website there are lots of situations where you want multiple items to have the same Presentation Settings (renderings/sublayouts/layout). The ideal case is that your item Masters have these settings included but sometimes this isn&#8217;t the case. You can copy and paste the settings all at one time this way: 1. Navigate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net/2008/05/13/copy-paste-layout-settings/</link>
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		<title>Sitecore Validation Rules</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Sitecore you can use validation rules. By default there are three validations rules on each template: Is Integer Max Length 40 Requirer You can modify or add new rules in the sitecore\system\settings\validation\field section in the content editor With the use of an multilist you can set the rules for your template. ATTENTION: Validation rules [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net/2008/05/13/sitecore-validation-rules/</link>
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		<title>Rich Text Editor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most annoying things about Sitecore is that the Rich Text Editor needs to be opent in an seperate web page dialog. But you can customize this behavior! Go to the Control Panel &#62; Preferences &#62; Change Your Application Options Tab Rich Text Editor Select editable You see that the Content Editor got [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net/2008/05/13/rich-text-editor/</link>
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		<title>Dynamic load where parameters for linqDatasource</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When using an Linq Datasource (linq to sql) for a datagrid (Gridview, ListView, etc) you don&#8217;t always want all rows from a table. To exclute data you can use the WhereParameters to add an where statement to your DataSource. You can do limited where statements with the Visual Studio Wizards. When you need more than a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.markvanaalst.net/2008/04/21/dynamic-load-where-parameters-for-linqdatasource/</link>
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