Sitecore7 Basics

Lets see Basics of Sitecore7!

Agenda

Whats new?
System requirements
Whats improved?
Assemblies Updated
Knife tools
Demo
Q&A

Whats new? Major

Highlights
Code named as Elbrus Why? Architecture
Unlimited items! (SC7 scales to virtually
unlimited content volumes) Say bye to
100 child items limit! Magic lies in
Item Buckets
Awesome search! (Content Tagging, Faceting,
Boosting, Performance) available via CE,PE,
and dialog boxes! Search statistics!
New LINQ layer with Sitecore.ContentSearch
API got power for Indexing and search!
(Client/Kernel/Analytics 3440 methods,
SC.CS/SC.Buckets 3200 methods)
LINQ API statistics!
New field types! (Multilist, Tree list,
GenerallinkEx with search)
Device simulator! (Since, Sitecore 6.6)
Supports Lucene/Solr/ElasticSearch!

System requirements
Requires .NET framework 4.5
Developers must use Visual Studio 2012 when developing for Sitecore, even
if their own projects are compiled for .NET 4.0 or .NET 3.5
Supports Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7,
and Windows Vista SP2+ and the associated IIS versions (IIS 7, IIS 7.5).
Require SQL Server 2008 R2 or SQL Server 2012 and their corresponding
SQL Server Express editions [SQL 2K8 Not supported]
Sitecore is deprecating support for running Sitecore under IIS application
pools configured to use Classic pipeline mode.

Whats improved?
IFilter support
DataSource improvements Datasource rendering parameters
stored in GUID instead of path
Improved logging for indexing and search few more log files to
analyze!
Renderings and layouts clear index on update
Changes around the list of supported browsers:
IE 8, 9 + 10 (IE 7 is no longer supported)
Chrome 25 and later
Firefox 17 and later
Apple Safari 6 for Mac OS (Apple Safari for Windows is no longer
supported
by Apple)
Troubleshooting patch info in showconfig.aspx

Assemblies updated
Following 3rd party assemblies has been updated, might have to update and
recompile your code if you are referencing them!
Assembly

Before

Now

Lucene.Net.dll

2.9.4.1

3.0.3.0

HtmlAgilityPack.dll

1.4.0.0

1.4.6.0

NewtonSoft.Json.dll

3.5.0.0

4.5.9.15308

New Knife tools

/Sitecore/Admin Tool

Description

LinqScratchPad.aspx

A new admin page that allows you to

write LINQ statements through a web
interface to test different queries.

FillDB.aspx

A new admin page that allows you to

quickly create huge amounts of items
in the content tree for test data.

pipelines.aspx

Provides pipeline profiling, which lets

you monitor utilization, performance,
and other aspects of Sitecore
pipelines

Its Demo time!

http://sc7demo Autohaus -- An open source demo site for Sitecore 7
[https://github.com/Sitecore/autohaus]
http://sc7 Plain Sitecore7 version

Resources

Sitecore7 Webinars
Sitecore7 Documentations
http://www.sitecore.net/~/media/Products/Resources/White%20Papers/Sitecore
%207/Sitecore7_White_Paper.ashx
http://www.eduserv.org.uk/blog/2013/05/21/sitecore-7-is-here-whats-new/
http://www.sitecore.net/Community/Business%20Blogs/Industry%20Insight/Posts/2013/05/Sitecore-7Going-to-the-Moon.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXuI8TYvT5Y&feature=youtu.be
http://www.mikkelhm.dk/post/2013/04/20/Sitecore-7-almost-there.aspx
http://blog.nonlinearcreations.com/2013/03/sitecore-7-three-reasons-to-be-excited/
http://blog.nonlinearcreations.com/2013/04/sitecore-7-whats-new-for-developers-in-elbrus/
http://blog.nonlinearcreations.com/2013/04/sitecore-7-whats-new-for-developers-in-elbrus/
http://blog.velir.com/index.php/2013/04/11/sitecore-7-an-insiders-look-into-new-features-andfunctionality/
http://www.sitecore.net/Community/Technical-Blogs/Sitecore-7-Development-Team.aspx?
tag=fe45bd4d-acb4-4a47-acf4-f0cc3c9f90d8
http://www.sitecore.net/Community/Technical-Blogs/Sitecore-7-DevelopmentTeam/Posts/2013/04/Sitecore-7-Developer-Toolbelt.aspx
http://www.sitecore.net/Community/Best-Practice-Blogs/Pieter-Brinkman/Posts/2013/04/Sitecore-7MVP-activities.aspx

Q and A

The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils
that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to
ask him which he finds it hard to answer.

Questions for you!

Whats the release date of SC7?

How Sitecore solved 100 child items limit?
Device Simulator is new feature of SC7?Yes/No
You can use VS 2010 while developing on SC7?
SC7 hosted on IIS7 will work with Classic pipeline?
Using which page you can do pipeline profiling?
If you switch your provider from Lucene to Solr Do you need to
change your code?

Thank you!

Happy Sitecoring!
Kiran Patil Sitecore MVP 2013
http://sitecorebasics.wordp
ress.com/