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This is how to retrieve the address to the startpage including the currently active language branch (e.g. “/sv/” or “/en/”): This code looks simple but it actually took me an hour or so to get it right (I haven’t worked with globalization before) ...

Emil Åström

This is simple stuff, but I wanted to store these code snippets somewhere for easy re-use… This is how to do databinding with a Repeater control in ASP.NET. In the ASPX file: In the code-behind file: In Page_Load(), we connect the repeater to a...

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In some cases it may be useful to detect when an EPiServer page is displayed in DOPE (Direct On-Page Editing) mode rather than the “normal” View mode. This is how to do it: This is the only way I have found to do this, but it feels like there shou...

Emil Åström

Have you ever written en EPiServer plugin for the Action Window? If so, you have probably noticed how irritatingly narrow it is. Luckily, the width can easily be adjusted by your plugin using this code: This is the same code that the built-in...

Emil Åström

Often you have to refer to a given page in a site. For example, on each page you may want to have a footer with a link to a page that describes the site’s usage of cookies. Note that this is different than linking to pages in the navigation menus...

Emil Åström

All content in EPiServer pages are stored in page properties which can be of different types such as short string, XHTML string, date, etc. It is also possible tocreate custom property data types, which can be very useful in many circumstances suc...

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Struggling with this error that occurs the first time the site is viewed after an IIS restart? This problem can be caused by the EPiServer Scheduler service not being installed. Try this: (From the EPiServer FAQ: http://www.episerver.com/en/EPiSer...

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Here’s how to extract the Html code for a web control: Tip: If you’re having problems with the generated Html being incomplete, then maybe you’re calling the function above in the wrong time? I’ve been having some problems with databound EPiServer...

Emil Åström