Articles about configuration

11 Nov 2011 ...

Using config transforms with EPiServer

Config transforms are great for configuration management. This post mentions one approach for applying config transforms to EPiServer configuration files such as episerver.config.

11 Nov 2011 ...

Access denied when accessing Visitor Groups tab in EPiServer

After we upgraded an intranet to EPiServer CMS 6 R2 we discovered that we were not able to access the Visitor Groups tab. Here's a quick note on cause and resolution.

18 Oct 2011 ...

See log4net log messages in real-time

This post shows how to make a simple addition to your log4net.config file to make it possible to view log4net messages in real-time.

29 Sep 2011 ...

Assembly redirect for Page Type Builder UI

Page Type Builder UI is a great plugin for synchronizing page types and page type classes. However, you may need to perform an assembly redirect to make PTB UI work with your specific PTB version.

26 Sep 2011 ...

More readable log4net logging in EPiServer

This post shows what we include in the EPiServerLog.config file to reduce clutter and improve readibility in the log files of EPiServer websites.

23 Aug 2011 ...

Control which files are included when publishing an ASP.NET project

In this post we look at how to modify an ASP.NET project to include additional files not included in the project, and also how to exclude specific folders, when the project is published or deployed.

22 Aug 2011 ...

Deploy an ASP.NET site through Web Deploy using Publish in Visual Studio

This post goes through the steps necessary to enable remote deployment to a web server from within Visual Studio using the Publish command.

30 Jun 2011 ...

Using config transforms with EPiServer

This post shows how to apply config transforms to elements with custom XML namespace attributes, such as the EPiServer element.

12 May 2011 ...

Custom 404 and error pages in ASP.NET

Here's a brief summary of the HTTP error settings we use for custom 404 and other error pages for ASP.NET websites running on IIS 7+.

25 Apr 2011 ...

Install ETF using EPiServer Deployment Center

This post shows how EPiServer Template Foundation can be added to an EPiServer CMS 6 website as a module using EPiServer Deployment Center.

24 Apr 2011 ...

Experiences from upgrading to EPiServer CMS 6 R2

This post summarizes some issues I ran into while upgrading an EPiServer CMS 6 R1 website to CMS 6 R2.

4 Mar 2011 ...

Edit the Host File on Mac OSX 10.6 and point it to Windows 7 localhost in Parallels 6

Pointing out your local sites in the host file in Windows is easy but I found out it wasn’t that obvious on Mac. Especially when you need to point to localhost on your Windows machine running in Parallells. This is how I did it.

13 Jan 2011 ...

Install WordPress on Windows 7 and SQL Server

This step-by-step guide explains how to install WordPress on Windows and run it on Microsoft SQL Server instead of MySQL.

3 Dec 2010 ...

Experiences with MacBook Pro 13’’ an Intel X-25M 160GB SSD HDD and Win7

I had problems installing Win7 on a MacBook Pro 13'' Intel X25-M Unibody, but stumbled upon an alternate route to take on my path to find a solution. I found Parallells 6!

6 Oct 2010 ...

What is KML, what do you use it to and some great references.

KML is a great way of providing your maps-solution with large amounts of POI’s. KML is based on XML and closely related to GML (Geography Markup Language). A great way of providing the public Google Maps or your own implementation with POIs.

24 Sep 2010 ...

Maintenance plans in MS SQL 2008

Maintenance plans in MS SQL 2008 is a really neat feature in MS SQL that is very easily missed. I also found a typical, but not so clear error while starting to use these features.

15 Sep 2010 ...

Manually setting the namespace for a web service proxy class in Visual Studio

When a web service proxy class is generated by Visual Studio it comes with a default namespace. This post shows a way of modifying how the proxy class is generated to manually specify which namespace to use.

26 Aug 2010 ...

System.Web.AspNetHostingPermission when using third-party assembly

When downloading third-party-product to include in your project, you can easily get this error: System.Web.AspNetHostingPermission.

9 Aug 2010 ...

Run EPiServer CMS 6 on ASP.NET 4.0

Getting EPiServer CMS 6 up and running on ASP.NET 4.0 is easy, although it should be noted that EPiServer doesn't officially support ASP.NET 4.0 yet.

17 Jul 2010 ...

Using config transforms for EPiServer settings

The build-specific configuration transforms that came with Visual Studio 2010, more specifically MSBuild 4, offer a pretty clean way of managing build-specific configurations. Here's a way of doing it, including a way of managing EPiServer-specific settings.

16 Jul 2010 ...

New EPiServer website using Template Foundation

In this post we'll look at how to set up an EPiServer CMS 6 website from scratch based on EPiServer Template Foundation.

2 Jul 2010 ...

Built-in SMTP-server in the IIS returns 5.7.1 Unable to relay

Built-in SMTP-server in the IIS returns "550 5.7.1 Unable to relay" after I had upgraded the server to Windows Server 2008 SP2...

8 Dec 2009 ...

How to set up an EPiServer website

This post mainly aims to complement Frederik Vig’s posts on setting up a new EPiServer site with some comments and pointer that I find valuable.

8 Sep 2008 ...

Localize page type and page property names in EPiServer

This post shows how to translate page type and property names and descriptions to have them appear in the correct language in the editor interface when globalization is enabled for an EPiServer web site.