SDL Tridion's TOM.NET API replaced the deprecated TOM (Tridion Object Model) starting in, I believe, version R5.3.
Aside from asking Stack Overflow (Exchange) questions, which documentation should we refer to when working with and learning the TOM.NET API?
So far, I've found (logins required):
SDL Live Content
TridionWorld Download (select latest version, currently 2011 SP1 to download the "SDL Tridion 2011 SP1 TOM.NET API" chm)
I see these (plus questions on the forum), but can't tell which is better. What do you use most when working with TOM.NET?
Good Question and Probably most of the Tridion new developers might be wondering the same when to to use which. I would say both the documents has a different purpose and go side-by-side. API Documentation does provide information on methods and usage, SDL Live Content docs provide information is more of understanding what to use for your scenario. We do get these kind of questions when we are on boarding any new developer "Which document provides me the most information".
I refer to these simple examples to explain the differences on when to use which documentation.
what variables are available in package (vs) What API method to use when reading variables from package ?
Referring Live Docs for the first and API doc for second
How do I loop through the embedded fields (vs) what method I use to loop through embedded value fields ?
Referring Live Docs for the first and API doc for second.
I see this question with different variation keep popping up almost every month.
I know I used simple use cases, but sometimes keeping it simple is better.
Hope this information helps.
Also according to this page in the documentation the TOM.NET API should be only used in Templating and Event Handlers. For third party applications you should use the Core Service API.
I use the API documentation, and when I really want to know more use Reflector. But that's not really advisable(?).
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If you have a look at VS feauture request and NDepend feature request you'll find out that they are exactly the same.
How is it possible? Are they using the same tool? Do you know if it is opensource and/or free?
http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/filters/top
The linked you provided is to a UserVoice.com site, which is apparently in use by the Visual Studio product team.
I see that NDepend is also using UserVoice.com.
Since they're both using UserVoice, you would expect them to look similar. You can learn more about UserVoice here. UserVoice is a commercial product.
Am just 6 months old to Tridion.
I know the basic stuff related to this tool.
I read somewhere saying we can enhance the functionalities of Content Delivery by extending it using some Java APIs.
Could someone guide me where can we get these Java API's from.
It would be great if you can quote some examples for this.
Apart from the official documentation (http://sdllivecontent.sdl.com/LiveContent/content/en-US/SDL_Tridion_2011_SPONE/concept_35CC2F9DCEA34995931E181C165FCC0F, login required) there is an excellent series of articles on the topic by Mihai Cadariu: http://www.sdltridionworld.com/articles/sdltridion2011/tutorials/extending-content-delivery-storage-sdltridion-2011-1.aspx.
I suggest you start from there and let us know if you have more specific questions!
I'm pretty new with JSON and i'm a little confused...
What I'm trying to do is to use the userless access for foursquare api, to get the venues of a location. Can you please show me a similar example in .net?
you may have more luck using one of the community contributed .net libraries. See https://developer.foursquare.com/resources/libraries for details.
I've not dug into the details of what and how SDL Tridion is storing data in it's internal search engine (SOLR), but I need to build a GUI extension that needs to perform searching on component/metadata fields across publications.
I can't see any reason not to have a look into SOLR, but before I invest the time, does anyone know any reason why this would be a bad idea?
Thanks in advance!
It's a bad idea in general to bypass the API and directly query SOLR.
From your question, I see no reason to do so.
Do you need to index more data than what is already indexed by Tridion?
If not, surely you can just search using the API?
If you do, you could consider implementing a custom Search Indexing Handler for the additional data. Although this is not very well documented at the moment, it seem rather straight forward to create (implement ISearchIndexingHandler and update your CM and SOLR configuration). The benefit would be that your data can also be searched for using the standard Tridion search.
It really depends on your search requirements. If it's just about simple search - then it's probably fine, but if you want to make some Tridion specific searches then it will be quite difficult as SDL Tridion does a lot of post processing on SOLR results. Why can't you just use CoreService and have a convenient supported search interface?
As Peter said, its really a bad idea to interact with SOLR that comes with Tridion. Tridion has a abstraction layer to hide complexity of SOLR query. For example tridion hides case sensivity of the search keyword.
I strongly recommend to use tridion search api to build ur interface. Tridion search api also supports executing solr query directly. But its not recommended.
For indexing additional data u can implement ISearchIndexingHandler. It has some complexity with the solr config files (adding new fields).
So, this does not necessarily have to do directly with the code itself, although it is certainly a component of it.
I recently downloaded and installed the PayFlow Pro SDK for use with ASP.net
link here:
https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=developer/library_download_sdks
I installed this to my development machine. I also came accross this example code which I figured outlined the primary setup for basic Paypal Credit Card Transaction functionality.
link here:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/PayPal_PayflowPro.aspx
Anyways, I have two main questions
Do I have to install the SDK on the web hosts server in order to utilize the functionality of it? This seems to make sense, however, the tutorial in the second link suggests I create a web reference. Unless I am not understanding something here, wouldn't this just strictly work on my development machine, or at least, the functionality of the remote website that references this web reference to access the sdk, would this not be dependent on my computer running and broadcasting this information?
I just need clarification on how to install and/or access the sdk for use on a remote webhosts server (ie. do i need to install the sdk on the web-hosts server and if so, how would one go about doing so (ie. where to install, how to install)?).
Are there any other clean cut examples like my second link provides, that sort of outline the basic functionality of Payflow Pro? I find paypal's examples numerous and convoluted and their online slides/video tutorials to be tedious.
Perhaps I should just get off my lazy ass, but I have found peers from the general community to be much more informative in a way more efficient manner, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
For anyone interested, after enough searching I found a great example that notified me of all the fundamental processes to creating a basic transaction and allowed me the knowledge to further manipulate the sdk.
Check it -
Code Projects PayflowPro example and introduction.