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The property system has changed quite a lot in EPiServer 7 and the need for writing custom properties has been greatly reduced. There have been many blog posts about the subject but here is a quick reference guide to help you move from the old...

Linus Ekström

Over the past 7 or so years of working with EPiServer, I have found myself writing the same code and solving the same problems over and over again. Sometimes the challenge has been to add new but common functionality that is used on most websites,...

In the new and shiny EPiServer 7 user interface there's a feature for changing the size of the preview view port. This is intended to give the editor a quick way of visualizing a page as it would turn out when shown on a smaller screen. A few...

In my current project (EPiServer 6 R2 with PageTypeBuilder 2.0) we need to display all available property setting values for some properties. I ended up getting what we needed but is there a simpler solution? Otherwise this might help someone else...

Anton Kallenberg

Need to know if an EPiServer CMS page is being rendered in edit mode or not? Then the PageEditing class is your friend. After trying a number of ways to determine if a page or block is rendered within EPiServer CMS’ edit mode or not I stumbled upo...

Blocks is a new building block introduced in EPiServer CMS 7. A block can be used in several ways, it can be used as a “complex” property when modeling content types. It is also possible to create stand alone instances of blocks (shared blocks) th...

Johan Björnfot

Yesterday I got some input from a friend about that they had got a license exception right before a big release. I’ve always thought it was a bit odd that EPiServer haven’t had a some kind of warning mechanism built in so I thought about building ...

Per Nergård (MVP)

I recently tried to update a customers website from CMS6 R2 to CMS7 and got an error. The error is a database error and the reason is that my root page id 1. This customer had root id = 5. This is the error message: An unhandled error has occured:...