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46 posts on Xperience by Kentico, .NET, AI tooling, and building things with code.

content-and-commerce-without-the-headaches.md 5 min
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22 Jul 2025

Content and Commerce Without the Headaches

Discover how SaaS DXPs are helping marketers streamline content and commerce for faster, smoother customer experiences.

#Commerce #Kentico SaaS
bringing-sustainability-insights-to-xperience-by-kentico.md 3 min
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20 May 2025

Bringing Sustainability Insights to Xperience by Kentico

Open source meets sustainability: the XperienceCommunity.Sustainability package brings green tooling to Xperience by Kentico - inspired by Umbraco, and already giving back to it.

#Kentico #Umbraco #Open source
the-kentico-saas-migration-lessons-learned-and-troubleshooting-tips.md 6 min
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30 Apr 2025

The Kentico SaaS Migration: Lessons Learned and Troubleshooting Tips

A few surprises, some near misses, and plenty of lessons learned while getting my Kentico SaaS setup running smoothly.

#Kentico #Kentico SaaS
the-kentico-saas-migration-automated-deployments.md 7 min
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29 Apr 2025

The Kentico SaaS Migration: Automated Deployments

Learn how I adapted my existing Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments to Kentico SaaS. This guide covers building, testing, packaging, and deploying to SaaS environments.

#Kentico #Kentico SaaS
the-kentico-saas-migration-a-step-by-step-guide.md 6 min
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23 Apr 2025

The Kentico SaaS Migration: A Step-by-Step Guide

A practical guide to migrating an Xperience by Kentico site to Kentico SaaS - covering prep, code updates, and your first deployment.

#Kentico #Kentico SaaS
how-data-protection-apis-enhance-security-in-your-cms.md 6 min
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18 Mar 2025

How Data Protection APIs (DPAPI) Enhance Security in Your CMS

Securing sensitive data is essential in modern CMS platforms. ASP.NET Core provides the Data Protection API (DPAPI) to help simplify encryption, decryption, and key management. DPAPI is used in many features, including ASP.NET authentication, so even if you're not using it directly, it is important to understand the basics.

#.NET #Security
umbraco-tips-for-newcomers-insights-from-an-outsider.md 1 min
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19 Dec 2024

Umbraco Tips for Newcomers: Insights from an Outsider

I have published my first Umbraco related article in the calendar, 24 Days in Umbraco. It provides insights for newcomers, some tips on how to get started. Read more about the article.

#Umbraco
how-to-easily-extend-xperience-by-kentico-ui-pages-with-page-extenders.md 3 min
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13 Sept 2024

How to Easily Extend Xperience by Kentico UI Pages with Page Extenders

UI page extenders in Xperience by Kentico allow you to customise existing UI pages without modifying their source code. In this post, we’ll walk through a simple example of reordering columns in a listing layout to better suit your needs.

#Kentico