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Caching news: The cache-dependency tag

Marek Fesar — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 07:00:00 GMT

In today’s article I would like to introduce a new tag helper added to Kentico Xperience 13 in the first Refresh. The cache-dependency tag helper enhances caching in Razor views for .NET Core MVC projects.

I also recommend reading the Caching news: Page builder widgets article and its sequel.

Caching news: Page builder widgets, part II

Marek Fesar — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:00:00 GMT

The first part of the article series dedicated to page builder widgets focused on how to enable caching in general, configure the cache expiration and control the dependencies of cached output.

In this article, I will go into detail about varying the cache content to accommodate some advanced scenarios.

Caching news: Page builder widgets

Marek Fesar — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 08:00:00 GMT

Kentico Xperience 13 Refresh 1 brings a huge performance enhancement for ASP.NET Core MVC based widgets – caching of widget output.

Improvements under the hood – InfoProviders injectable as dependencies and asynchronous Get methods

Marek Fesar — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Welcome to the next episode of our short article series presenting Kentico Xperience 13 technical features, which might not be visible at first sight.

It is an honor to introduce a brand new trait of our InfoProvider data manipulation pattern – InfoProvider interfaces.

Improvements under the hood – Asynchronous API in (Multi)DocumentQuery and ObjectQuery

Marek Fesar — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 12:00:00 GMT

In today’s article, I would like to introduce a new addition to our querying API. The DocumentQuery and ObjectQuery methods are now accompanied by asynchronous counterparts for query execution.

Improvements under the hood – Document and ObjectQuery enumeration without DataSets

Marek Fesar — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 12:00:00 GMT

In this article, I will talk about how we enhanced page and object querying in Kentico Xperience 13 and the benefits for custom code.

The article is part of our short series presenting new technical features.

Improvements under the hood – Task-based caching in Xperience 13

Marek Fesar — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 12:00:00 GMT

Welcome to the first episode of our short article series presenting Kentico Xperience 13 technical features, which might not be visible at first sight.

Today I will talk about improvements in caching with regard to task-based asynchronous programming.

Speeding Up Your First Request in Kentico by 50%

Marek Fesar — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 14:00:00 GMT

ASP.NET applications take their time when it comes to runtime compilation. And Kentico is no exception, as it is based on ASP.NET. Those who have been developing moderate-size or large applications know the story – after an application is compiled using msbuild in Visual Studio and the first page is requested, runtime compilation occurs. And the waiting comes. You have to wait for each page’s first load.

Kentico 8.1 Technology – Using SharePoint API

Marek Fesar — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 15:00:00 GMT

Kentico 8.1 features a brand new implementation of SharePoint integration. The main purpose was to make the developers’ lives easier and to provide you with the ability to retrieve data from a SharePoint server without the hassle. In this article, we will focus on how to use the API for the purposes of customization, specifically when the supplied SharePoint data source web part is not enough.