In real Sitecore projects, you may have to deal with some special requirements such as ensuring to have a slash at the end of the links which are normally generated by Link Manager. Technically, it should be an easy one by implementing a string extension method like this:

 

However, there are many places need to be updated for using EnsurePostfixSlashForLink above. In addition, the requirements are different probably for every single site so I think that we should play around with site-specific Link Manager. The main purpose is to have a chance to use our own implementation and define additional URL option(s) if necessary.

Personally, I like this approach of my fellow Sitecore MVP Kamruz Jaman very much.

Yeah, I know that I’m a lazy developer but I still want to make my hand dirty by using ILSpy for decompiling Sitecore.Kernel.dll in order to learn how to get the value of an  attribute on a Link Provider configuration.

As a consequence, I have my own Sitecore package (thanks for your sponsor Kamruz Jaman) so that I can play with it on every single Sitecore project.

 

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How to install it

• Use SIM to setup a new Sitecore 8/9 instance. For a better practice:
  • add a host name mvcsite.local
  • download this Sitecore package (sample site) and install it to your Sitecore instance via Installation Wizard
  • hopefully, you can see something like this

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• Download the module as a Sitecore package on Gitlab then install it to your Sitecore instance via Installation Wizard

How to use it

• open \App_Config\Include\MvcSite\MvcSiteDefinition.config
• add a new site property:
  • linkProvider=”vhs”
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• access http://mvcsite.local/, you would see this
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• now we try to remove the postfix slash
  • open \App_Config\Include\z.Vhs.SiteSpecificLinkProvider.config
  • set ensurePostfixSlash=”false”
  • 
  • access http://mvcsite.local/, you would see this
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Note: if you specify non-existent link provider via site definition, the fallback will be the default link provider (in this case is sitecore)

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Not Good Enough? Please feel free to download the source code and add your own enhancements if necessary.

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Got issues?

Please send your issues (with screenshots if possible) to viet.hoang.sitecore@gmail.com so that I have a chance to understand your problem and be able to suggest the solution.

Happy Sitecore Coding!