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Program.cs In Optimizely CMS 12, Program.cs is now the entry point for the application. A web solution is now a console project that gets started by executing the Main() method. The code in Program.cs is pretty simple to figure out: Startup.cs...

Jon Jones

In this tutorial, you will learn a little more about the new Optimizely CMS 12 project structure and how it differs from CMS 11 and below. The massive change in Optimizely CMS 12 is that it works with .NET 5 and .NET Core. Gone are the days of...

Jon Jones

I recently was able to start using one of the new Linux (.NET5.0/CMS12) DXP instances to do some testing/development in, and I came across an interesting error that threw me for a loop. I, for one, am not very versed in .NET Core, so this is all...

Eric Markson

On the first day of the .NET Conf 2021 , the GA release of Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6 was announced. Here are some highlights that were presented during the conference and the blog . Visual Studio 2022 Fonts A new font, Cascadia, and updated...

Patrick Lam

Blend's Director of Development Bob Davidson talks through how Optimizely integrates with Azure Active Directory after the introduction of Optimizely CMS 12.

Bob Davidson

Most instructions for creating a custom form block in Optimizely follow the same approach . My problem with the typical approach is that it requires a folder structure that doesn't match my solution. I use a slightly different method to allow me t...

Daved

From time to time, I have to dig into some customers’ profiler traces to figure out why their site is slow (yeah, if you follow me, you’d know that’s kind of my main job). There are multiple issues that can eat your website performance for...

Quan Mai

In the previous articles on the personalization series, I covered the basics of content personalization and how it can be achieved by using Optimizely visitor groups to implement a segmentation strategy. In the next articles of the series, I’ll...

Éric St-Pierre