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Now that we have strongly typed page types in EPiServer 7, we wonder how we ever lived without it. Actually… we just used the superb Page Type Builder , but that’s not the point. We now want to do everything in code rather than in the Admin mode,...

Dan Matthews

With EPiServer 7 came the introduction of two new features; the ability to divide a page into blocks or smaller reusable components and support for the ASP.NET MVC framework in templates. If we want to combine these two features together and creat...

henriknystrom

First of all, big thanks to Anders Hattestad and all his great contributions to the community! Some months ago he posted a great post on how to use categories in a better way. I´ve taken his code and refined it a bit.  I started with the gui first...

Johan Petersson

One really big enhancement is canonical urls for your/customers content. I’m sure you all know about the problem with duplicated content, but not everyone tend to fix it. Here’s my take on it. namespace DV.HttpModules { using System; using...

Johan Petersson

Lately I’ve seen different ways of creating a menu with correct and semantic html in EPiServer. The example in the EPiServer SDK is just soooo wrong from most perspectives. I think this is the best and simplest way: " ShowRootPage="false"...

Johan Petersson

Give your editors the possibility to select a country from a drop down list. This is a really simple custom property but shows how easy it is to extend EPiServer . First we create the property... namespace DV.CustomProperties { using System; using...

Johan Petersson

If you want to mimic the “Mark page as changed”-checkbox in code it's not so obvious how to do that. PageData writeablePage = CurrentPage.CreateWritableClone(); writeablePage["PageChangedOnPublish"] = true; DataFactory.Instance.Save( writeablePage...

Johan Petersson

If you’re listening to DataFactory events like: protected void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e) { EPiServer.DataFactory.Instance.CreatingPage += new EPiServer.PageEventHandler(CreatingOrSavingPage); EPiServer.DataFactory.Instance.Savi...

Johan Petersson