A little Razl Tip to help your efficiency

I’ve been using Razl a lot lately, and if you’re not also, you should definitely check it out.

I’m creating components with test data, which is being included in the TDS project, but being excluded from production builds. This means that I can create components and have test content available for debugging, and other developers can get the sites running locally with no visual issues.

Sometimes I may even have complete content on my local instance… where I’ve tested and confirmed it’s working, and the request will come in to push that to production. The request, of course, will come while you’re midway through programming another component…. so I want to save any time I can doing the push, and get back to my programming.

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Razl Dazl: The Sitecore Database Compare Tool

A while back I blogged about getting the latest data from production back into your local Sitecore instance.
In the post I showed how it was possible to do using Hedgehog Development‘s Team Development for Sitecore.

Now there’s another tool out there that allows you to do this, in a far cleaner way.
The geniuses at Hedgehog have released Razl, a Sitecore database compare tool, which allows you to port content back and forth between Sitecore installations.

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