The <databases> section includes multiple <database> tags, each of which provides information regarding a specific data source, including which data pro...

The <dataProviders> section includes multiple <dataProvider> tags, each of which defines the application library, namespace, and class associated with a...

To be able to retrieve data, the database must be associated with one or more data providers. A data provider is a vendor specific implementation of a c...

Introduced in Sitecore 5.1.1, the IDTable class provides persistent mapping of arbitrary keys to Sitecore IDs. The IDTable stores the arbitrary keys as ...

Sitecore defines many classes to keep track of and access configuration settings. This section describes the most commonly used.

Sitecore is architected to make integration with external data sources easy. In fact, it is very straight-forward to connect external data sources so th...

The Sitecore security database provides a working example of the security database. The definition of this database in web.config is (expanded for clari...

There are two ways to create an Items manually, and in either case special characters such as space and punctuation should be avoided (these can actuall...

Most developers begin using the Sitecore API when writing Layout or Sublayout code-behind or web controls. Regardless of what the developer needs to do,...

The Appearance section defines the appearance of Items and fields in the Sitecore Client.