Sitecore System.InvalidOperationException: fieldTypeItem YSOD

Posted by on Nov 14, 2013 in Blog, Sitecore, Visual Studio 2010 | 19 comments

YSOD in Sitecore Template Inheritance Tab I received a nasty surprise, a YSOD, when I clicked the Inheritance tab for a user defined template in Sitecore. After a little digging and some help from Sitecore Rocks, it turns out that after installing a “dirty” Sitecore package, the Type for a field can be left blank. If you have a Sitecore template that inherits a template with a field...

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Sitecore AnalyticsProviderSqlServer threw an exception

Posted by on Feb 5, 2012 in Blog, Sitecore | 54 comments

If you’ve ever received a YSOD regarding “'Sitecore.Analytics.Data.DataProviders.AnalyticsProviderSqlServer' threw an exception.” when running a Sitecore website on your local machine, here is the solution.  Since we don’t normally have the Sitecore Analytics engine running on our local development machines, you have to disable it in configuration files. My first attempt at getting rid...

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