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Tim Gaunt

Error running scratch indexer in Ucommerce v9+

We ran into an odd issue today where we suddenly couldn't run the scratch indexer in Ucommerce after making a few changes to the product properties. We tracked the issue down to the IndexDefinition which was using non-nullable field declarations e.g. ``` this.Field(p => p["

Longest Company Names for Companies in the Financial Markets

When designing websites or mobile apps it's important that you allow for the extremities in the content to avoid breaking your design -even more so if you're dealing with a data website such as an e-commerce website or financial markets. Don't be tempted to

What is browser testing and why does it take so long?

Your design is built, content loaded, media is in and your site looks great on your computer -you’re ready to launch so why the sudden hold up with browser testing and why is it going to take so long? Take this issue I ran into earlier this week. Can

Could not load file or assembly xxx or one of its dependencies

We hit the fairly common issue of not being able to resolve a dependency the other day and tried all the usual resolutions -checking that the version numbers across all projects match, check the values in the configs haven't corrupted during an install, clean and rebuild the solution,

Sitefinity project stuck at warming up

We've had the opportunity recently to start working with the enterprise grade CMS Sitefinity in a little more depth than our previous Ucommerce consultancy which has been a welcome break. It's been pretty straight forward to get up and running in contrast to some of the

Super fast internet over 3G/4G... without broadband

With more of us working from home these days, getting decent broadband speeds can be tricky -especially if you work out in the countryside like we do however with a little time and money it doesn't need to be dial-up slow. Over the years we've tried

Error running Ucommerce scratch indexer Illegal duplicate key definitions

We hit an interesting issue indexing the Ucommerce data the other day which had us going for a while. It turns out that when upgrading Ucommerce to 7.0.6, some new payment providers were added to `uCommerce_Definition` with duplicate Guids which then caused an issue. We found it

Design with data -how to get the longest/shortest product/category name from Ucommerce

There's little more frustrating that finalising a store and loading in the product data only to find it doesn't look as beautiful as the design. This is usually because the designer has chosen a product title from the site which looks good in the design rather

Turn negative reviews to your advantage

Nothing reassures a new customer quite like the experience of an existing customer, but its not always roses and that's ok if handled sensitively. No one likes a negative review, especially after having worked hard to service a customer, but you should not shy away from them as

Can't register services with LightInject in Umbraco - The non-generic method 'Composition.Register(Type, Lifetime)' cannot be used with type arguments

We've generally used Autofac as our go to dependency injection container in Umbraco but we like to keep projects as lean as possible so wanted to start using LightInject for Umbraco V8 projects but hit a silly error this morning which took a while to track down. Nearly