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I have been stuck with this issue and couldn't take it out of my head. Hence, ended up putting in some heavy hours solving it. But hopefully it is worth it. THE CONTEXT: I am implementing a MVC solution for an existing Sitecore 8.0 implementation which uses Castle Windsor for it's dependency resolver. Let's say a a tiny microsite. I had to implement a SPEAK app as per one of the requirements. Below are the 2 most important things behind why I ran into this issue in the first place: I needed to call a WebApi from my SPEAK app. 2. I decided to take MVC Area approach for my "tiny microsite" on a completely different sets of dlls For example the dlls for my "tiny microsite" are MyTinyApp.Web.dll, MyTinyApp.Business.dll whereas the main website's dlls are BigWebsite.Web.dll, BigWebsite.Business.dll etc.  WHY MVC AREA: The reason I took the MVC Area approach was to completely separate my "tiny microsite" so that I don't ...

​ Okay so this is something I picked up from a recent developer group thingy and have been annoying my colleagues about this since then. Instead of thinking Sitecore as one project (MVC) solution why not treat it like a module/deliverable based implementation. I have created a sample solution which is here: https://bitbucket.org/ali_nahid/sckitchensync   The idea is pretty simple (Just like DDD pattern): You get a rough idea of the entire implementation like what are the  deliverable , functionalities etc etc and group them. Then just like the way you plan renderings on your page you plan bunch of different modules to implement in your solution. In my case I divided my sitecore implementation into the following modules: 1.       The core: This module contains the layouts and core renderings. In my case 1 standard layout that just defines the top level placeholders. Like header, footer, content etc. And a “_Ma...

theProblem: The front end ( html and css ) is set up such a way that for the description text form a sitecore content needs to have a <p> tag wrapped around it.  Now, I'm sure just by reading the above 2 lines you are thinking "WOW that's really simple and every RTE does that by default. So, continuing to reading this is useless and this guy is clearly dumb enough." "sayth whath" - said thor Well Yes and No. This is what I found: So by default the RTE wraps texts in a <p> tag =  TRUE.  BUT the catch is you will need to hit a enter or copy paste multiple paragraph. Then the RTE will clean the HTML and in the process it will wrap each para in a <p> tag. NICE. Of course there's a setting for it that you can modify and instead of <p> you can have <br/> and so. <setting name="HtmlEditor.LineBreak" value="p" /> And no you can't have anything that you want there.. there's a limit...