11
Nov
2011
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
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.
24
Oct
2011
In this post we look at how to create new custom criteria for defining visitor groups in EPiServer.
18
Oct
2011
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.
30
Sep
2011
This post was originally published on EPiServer Labs in February 2009. It gives an example on how to check if a dynamic property has been set explicitly for a specific page.
29
Sep
2011
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
This post shows what we include in the EPiServerLog.config file to reduce clutter and improve readibility in the log files of EPiServer websites.
18
Sep
2011
This post presents a concept for creating single-assembly gadgets for EPiServer. This means a gadget can be added to a site by simply dropping a DLL in the bin folder and registering it in web.config.
14
Sep
2011
This post explains how to create a custom report for the EPiServer Report Center, an often forgotten but powerful tool for editors and administrators.
3
Sep
2011
In this post we look at how to create Composer functions, such as layout blocks and content blocks, with Page Type Builder.
2
Sep
2011
Here we look at how to create a new Composer page type and template using EPiServer Composer 4 and Page Type Builder.
30
Jun
2011
This post shows how to apply config transforms to elements with custom XML namespace attributes, such as the EPiServer element.
18
Jun
2011
After an upgrade to EPiServer CMS 6 R2 we noticed that valid users were redirected to the login page whenever they tried accessing edit mode. Seems language-specific permissions were the culprit.
26
May
2011
The SEO tab in EPiServer is available for all page types when using ETF. This post explains the details of how the ETF SEO properties work.
27
Apr
2011
Despite risking mean comments about what a content management system is for - this post shows how we created a page type for publishing plain HTML content in EPiServer.
26
Apr
2011
These are a few handy code snippets for working with languages and language versions in EPiServer, for example to check if a page exists for a specific language.
25
Apr
2011
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
This post walks you through a simple example of how to create dynamic content in EPiServer CMS 6 R2 using the new DynamicContentPlugIn attribute.
24
Apr
2011
This post summarizes some issues I ran into while upgrading an EPiServer CMS 6 R1 website to CMS 6 R2.
19
Apr
2011
We ran into a rather peculiar problem when implementing custom visitor group criteria in EPiServer - we simply couldn't implement the abstract IsMatch member of the CriterionBase class.
18
Apr
2011
This is a petition to ask EPiServer to provide partners with a source code browser - perhaps most important for EPiServer CMS and Relate.
13
Apr
2011
This post demonstrates how to use ETF to create new RSS feeds for EPiServer websites.
11
Apr
2011
With ETF 1.1 came some breaking changes affecting ETF UI controls that mimic the appearance of EPiServer's page type property controls.
7
Apr
2011
Screencast showing a WordPress plugin which allows a WP user to publish content from WordPress to EPiServer CMS.
3
Apr
2011
This post goes through some noteworthy issues when installing EPiServer CMO, including enabling thumbnails for LPO page variations and configuring the Live Monitor WCF service.
31
Mar
2011
Here we add basic news publishing functionality to a blank ETF-enabled EPiServer website.
31
Mar
2011
This post goes through the steps required for setting up a new EPiServer website with ETF.
9
Feb
2011
This comparison of EPiServer and WordPress is actually aimed at explaining why the two should not be compared - while at the same time providing some (hopefully) funny analogies.
14
Jan
2011
This post explains how to suppress the alert message displayed when a postback occurs inside a custom property control, for example when a button is clicked.
11
Nov
2010
This post explains how to get around a problem in EPiServer 5 which causes the edit mode link to throw a 404, page not found.
19
Oct
2010
This post explains how to use a user control for presenting a user interface to an editor when inserting dynamic content.
30
Sep
2010
EPiServer Template Foundation is a framework for speeding up the development of EPiServer websites by offering common page type definitions, site features, and developer helpers for reducing repetitive tasks and for simplifying certain complex concepts.
28
Sep
2010
One way to create more dynamic page templates in EPiServer is to use dynamic content. Here's an example of how to create dynamic content including dynamic content settings.
9
Aug
2010
When unit testing it can be tricky being dependent on a web context. In this post we'll look at how to start EPiServer and run it outside of a web application to make unit testing easier.
9
Aug
2010
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.
6
Aug
2010
In order to use ASP.NET AJAX inside an EPiServer custom property you have to have a ScriptManager present. Here's an example of how to add one programmatically.
4
Aug
2010
The PropertyControlClassFactory class makes it easy to map EPiServer properties to custom property controls to modify how properties are rendered.
30
Jul
2010
The PropertyUserControlBase class in Template Foundation has been updated with two new events called PropertyLoad and PropertySave, making it easier to load and save the property value.
25
Jul
2010
EPiServer Template Foundation makes it a lot easier to create custom properties based on user controls. In this post we go through the steps needed to create a new custom property in EPiServer and use user controls for rendering the property in edit mode and on page templates.
25
Jul
2010
This post tries to clarify what an EPiServer property is and how it works, primarily to enable us to better develop custom properties for EPiServer websites.
17
Jul
2010
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
In this post we'll look at how to set up an EPiServer CMS 6 website from scratch based on EPiServer Template Foundation.
21
Jun
2010
In this post we’ll look at how to include EPiServer Template Foundation in your EPiServer project in order to use the different page type base classes and publish EPiServer pages using Windows Live Writer through the MetaWeblog API.
2
Jun
2010
The new initialization system in EPiServer 6 can be used to execute logic in a specific order on startup. This post explains how to ensure your startup modules are executed after the DataFactory has been initialized properly.
2
Jun
2010
When adding Page Type Builder to an EPiServer project you may run into security exceptions because the assemblies aren't fully trusted. Luckily, fixing it is quick and painless!
26
May
2010
EPiServer comes with its own set of cache management classes to help you cache objects which depend on specific EPiServer pages, and also ensure cache updates are propagated among multiple web servers.
25
May
2010
At EPiServer Partner Summit we'll present an upcoming open-source framework for EPiServer 6 which aims to reduce repetitive tasks and extend EPiServer core functionality by adding MetaWeblog support, tags, date folder sorting and a whole lot more.
21
May
2010
Explanation of the new InitializableModule concept in EPiServer 6 which is used to implement functionality that should execute when an EPiServer site starts, for example to attach event handlers.
21
May
2010
This article describes how to create a new language branch programmatically for an existing page in EPiServer.
21
May
2010
Code sample demonstrating how to create new EPiServer pages programmatically using the DataFactory class.
20
May
2010
How to find pages in EPiServer by searching using the FindPagesWithCriteria method. The code sample describes how to search in EPiServer using criterias based on page properties.
8
Dec
2009
An introduction to Joel Abrahamsson's PageTypeBuilder project for EPiServer. Here I go through the basics of defining a strongly typed page type including page type inheritance.
8
Dec
2009
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.
12
Oct
2009
This post provides an introduction to the Dynamic Data Store, or DDS, which was introduced with EPiServer 6.
16
Sep
2009
This post explains how to parse XHTML which contains dynamic content in EPiServer so that we can retrieve the actual markup.
14
Apr
2009
In this post we create an admin plugin for EPiServer which allows administrators to add or remove e-mail subscribers.
8
Sep
2008
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.
26
Aug
2008
This article explains how to use web parts for EPiServer templates using the Web Part Framework for EPiServer which is available on EPiCode.
18
Aug
2008
This post shows how to login to an EPiServer site programmatically, for example to execute a scheduled job as a specific user.
15
Aug
2008
This post explains how to get the simple address of a page, if any. As it turns out, it's just a matter of getting the PageExternalURL property.
8
Aug
2008
This post explains how to create a scheduled job in EPiServer CMS.
24
Jul
2008
Post explaining how to implement a custom URL rewrite provider in EPiServer by inheriting the FriendlyUrlRewriteProvider class and customizing its behavior.
7
Feb
2008
This post explains how to get the friendly URL of a page in EPiServer, handy for those cases where you won't get automatic rewriting of internal URLs.