Getting used items using the core service

Just wanted to post up a quick code snippet showing how to get a list of used items XML using the SDL Tridion 2011 core service.  Why?  Well previously the API typically used to work like itemType.GetListUsedItems() (where itemType is a Component or Page object etc), where as now the ‘Using’ and ‘Used’ items are read using a filter via the core service client method .GetListXML().

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Installing the Image Map extension for SDL Tridion

This post is part 3 of 3 that explains how to install the Image Map extension for SDL Tridion.  Please also read the image map extension introduction and details about how to use it.

Note: This will only work on SDL Tridion 2011, that said it would be really easy to get this working on 2009, contact me if you’d like some help with it.

The Image Map tool is built using HTML and Javascript (Not my javascript, the excellent javascript of these guys), it plugs directly into multimedia components as a custom field in the multimedia schema.

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TDSE impersonation & snap in security

I’ve just finished upgrading a customer to SDL Tridion 2011 where part of the task involved migrating a custom application from Tridion 2009 server to the new 2011 GUI server.  The application uses the .Net Interop library in order to create a TDSE object.  When the code ran to impersonate the object the following exception was thrown with the message:

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