Sitecore 10.4.0 - Sidekick 1.7 Compatibility Issue
Disclaimer: Although these hacks might not be a perfect fix, I wanted to get the issue out of the way for now in a time-boxed manner. If I can get hold of a better/permanent fix, will update this note. Recently, I saw a thread in Sitecore slack channel wherein someone had raised an issue with regard to compatibility of Sitecore Sidekick with Sitecore 10.4.0 instance. So, as ever, i decided to take the issue in my own hands and see if I could deal with and find a fix! This blog note is as a result of that weekend adventure. First of all, I followed this blog post by Madhu to setup a local 10.4.0 instance and published the Sidekick configs and dlls to the 10.4.0 instance, as stated. Now, once I clicked the menu in the Sitecore desktop, bingo, the error was quite evident. Simultaneously, I setup a 10.3.0 instance side-by-side and did the same process of publishing the sidekick configs and dlls to confirm that the issue was very much specific to 10.4.0 instance. YSOD in S...
