Blog posts by Valdis Iljuconoks2025-02-02T20:00:00.0000000Zhttps://world.optimizely.com/blogs/Valdis-Iljuconoks/ Optimizely World Aspiring OptimizelyAdding .NET Aspire application host to your Optimizely project (even if it’s just for local development) is really a time-saver when it comes to setting up your local development environment, spinning up resources you need and tracing it during runtime.2025-02-02T20:00:00.0000000ZBlog post DbLocalizationProvider v8.0 ReleasedI’m pleased to announce that Localization Provider v8.0 is finally out.2024-02-28T13:00:00.0000000ZBlog post Overview of some of the less-known Optimizely Add-OnsWe have more than seven hundred packages (717) on Optimizely NuGet feed. Official Optimizely packages are part of this number, but the majority is community driven open-source packages enhancing and extending the platform, services and developer, administrator or editor experiences. It’s a lot. And there is a great community behind this number.2023-03-06T08:30:00.0000000ZBlog post Optimizely Advanced ContentArea Renderer for Forms is Back!Advanced Content Area Renderer is now available for Optimizely content. However, it would be nice to apply display options to Optimizely Forms elements as well.2023-02-11T15:00:00.0000000ZBlog post Optimizely Advanced ContentArea Renderer is Back!If you have used EPiBootstrapArea package - then back in those days we had an opportunity to render Episerver ContentArea items with different DisplayOptions based on Twitter’s Bootstrap framework grid system.2023-01-23T07:00:00.0000000ZBlog post Optimizely DeveloperTools are back!Experimental project with handy tools for developers is back for Optimizely v12.2022-12-13T10:00:00.0000000ZBlog post Import Your Localized Resources in v7.5Import functionality has been delayed for several versions of DbLocalizationProvider. However, with the help of community member - this feature has finally been implemented!2022-11-21T11:00:00.0000000ZBlog post Dynamic Route in ASP.NET Core When MapDynamicControllerRoute Does Not WorkBackground Creating one of the add-on for Optimizely I had to deal with challenge to register dynamically route for the API controller. Dynamic route here means that user is able to provide own url segment on top of which add-on user interface and supporting API service endpoints will be registered.2022-11-01T08:00:00.0000000ZBlog post GoogleProductFeed for Optimizely - ReloadedThe previous version of GoogleProductFeed package for EPiServer / Optimizely had some inherited problems. In case you need a few product feed format “exports” of your catalog data - loading multiple times the same catalog content was one of the major issues. There are sites that have thousands of products and variations and loading them takes quite a bit of time.2022-04-21T22:15:00.0000000ZBlog post How to Configure Microsoft.Extensions.Logging in Optimizely CMS11You might be thinking that Microsoft.Extensions.Logging and related packages are useful only for .NET Core and above. That’s not entirely true. While Microsoft.Extensions.Logging is target .NET Standard it’s possible to use it even on .NET Framework 4.x. This is de-facto logging library that class libraries should use at very least. Where Optimizely (ex. Episerver) CMS11 (running on .NET Framework) would collide with anything from the “new world” (.NET5)?2022-02-09T22:00:00.0000000ZBlog post DbLocalizationProvider v7 Out!Many Thanks!2022-01-23T21:15:00.0000000ZBlog post How-to Pack Your Shell Module for Optimizely Content CloudOptimizely Content Cloud is approaching fast and partners are working on getting modules out on the feed for the rest of us to test.2021-09-03T17:00:00.0000000ZBlog post What New APIs Are Coming in Optimizely Content Cloud vNext?Intro I was wondering what new assemblies and public APIs are coming in new version of Content Management System from Optimizely (ex. EPiServer). I took standard AlloyTech site created via Episerver VS integration plugin (for CMS11) and .NET Core Preview site (v12.0.1-pre-022064) and ran some comparison script I hacked together at evening.2021-08-18T22:10:00.0000000ZBlog post Episerver Scheduled Jobs - Under the HoodIntroduction2020-12-07T19:00:00.0000000ZBlog post Bootstrap Content Area Renderer Update for EpiserverTwitter Bootstrap Content Area package hasn’t been updated for a while which might mean either no one is using it or it’s mature enough that does not require new features :)2020-09-06T07:15:00.0000000ZBlog post Localization Provider UpdateHi all,2020-07-09T16:10:00.0000000ZBlog post LocalizationProvider Under the TestsRecently I got a question from a very good friend of mine about how to properly unit test localization provider.2020-03-31T16:00:00.0000000ZBlog post Episerver Localization Provider - Major v6 Released!Introduction2020-03-17T16:00:00.0000000ZBlog post Episerver ContentArea with AllowedTypes Specified by InterfaceBackground2020-01-12T19:45:00.0000000ZBlog post Episerver DeveloperTools - UI RefreshBeen busy with some UI refreshment effort on Episerver DeveloperTools.2020-01-03T19:45:00.0000000ZBlog post