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  • Syndicated blog - Posted on: Jan 17, 2012

    If you’re using NuGet 1.6 it’s possible to not commit NuGet packages to your source control. There’s a small gotcha involved if you’re using packages that are not in the official feed (for instance, the EPiServer feed). For this example… Let’s...

  • Syndicated blog - Posted on: Jan 17, 2012

    Load balancing is a clear choice for the most of popular sites with high volumes of incoming traffic. This solution allows distributing the load among several servers to improve performance and achieve high availability. This blog post describes а...

  • Syndicated blog - Posted on: Jan 16, 2012

    After reading about .NET 4’s new PreApplicationStart method being used to register build providers without touching the web.config. I thought about other instances where editing the web.config was mundane. The first thing that came to mind was...

  • Syndicated blog - Posted on: Jan 15, 2012

    The MaxMind GeoIP database (shipped with EPiServer Framework) is rather useful when wanting to show geographically specific information to visitors as they surf around the site. Since mapping the correct requests to the proper regions may be rathe...

  • Syndicated blog - Posted on: Jan 15, 2012

    The requirement from the customer was fairly straight forward: on a page an editor should be able to choose any number of categories (not the built-in kind). The selectable options should be editable in episerver. Since we’re using EPiServer CMS 6...

  • Posted on: Jan 14, 2012
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    I’ll start this with a warning: this code can really mess up your site. I just created it to get something done quickly, and I’m only sharing it in case you’re in a similar situation. Be very careful with the values you enter, and as always, test,...

  • Syndicated blog - Posted on: Jan 13, 2012

    I recently created a contact form for my latest project bankrutt.se I used a model for my contact entity and the view was auto-generated nicely. One thing that struck me was that the form only validated if any text was entered, how about e-mail...

  • Syndicated blog - Posted on: Jan 13, 2012

    I am currently playing around with the MVC Sitemap provider for my new website bankrutt.se and have discovered the easiest way to create a top menu in MVC3. The top menu shipped in the default MVC3 template don’t have support for highlighting the...