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I just released version 0.9 of Page Type Builder. This version is also the release candidate for, or at least the beta version of, version 1.0 in the sense that I don’t foresee any new features in version 1.0, only bug fixes (if needed) and possib...
Introduction The main issue is that the XFormSelect.aspx does a lot of database calls to load each xform. You can check the bug #25759: EPiServer.UI.Edit.XFormSelect.LoadForms calls GetxFormUsedonPages twice per xform on each request. The problem ...
How you can find a string in a SQL database? One option would be to export the database to Excel file and use the Excel searching capabilities. Unfortunately I did not manage to get the export working for me at all. If you want to do it the smart...
In a previous post I described my first attempt at working with EPiServer and MVC along with Page Type Builder . In that solution all controllers inherited from a base class which had an instance of a class called CurrentPageResolver. Each...
There are many different ways of storing business data in EPiServer CMS. And lots of opinions on them as well. David Hunt has made an excellent blog post about some of the approaches. On top of those approaches there are also others – like using t...
I have been working with a globalized website for some time and have a couple of tips to share regarding globalization. I’m using FindPagesWithCriteria to get pages based on categories defined on pages. As we teach during the EPiServer developer...
Back in the happy and fun filled days of EPiServer Day 2009, I was so privileged that I got to give a 1-hour talk entitled “ Codemania ” together with Mr. EPiServer himself, chief architect Magnus Stråle . At that day, most of my efforts to impres...
I recently had a discussion with someone about how best to store collections in EPiServer, such as RSS feeds, advertisements, frequently asked questions, customer details etc. Here are my thoughts...Using custom propertiesIf you wanted to display ...