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Lately I have heard from several developers that FindPagesWithCriteria is evil, and should be avoided at all costs. I’ve heard it from different people, in different unrelated cases, and some comments are needed. Yes, FindPagesWithCriteria can slo...
In a recent project I had to create a property with the same name and type on several page types. Let's just say that it was not that fun. "There should be a way to create the same property on several pages at once", I thought to myself. So I...
EPiServer vs. Umbraco, purpose of this post Both developers and clients have on numerous occasions asked me what the differences are between EPiServer and Umbraco , which one is the “best”, why choose “costly” EPiServer when Umbraco is “free”, whi...
My first blog post as graduated will be a short one, but I promise more is coming. I recently got a question about how do you know if you are in Edit or Admin mode. Say you have a usercontrol that is used in both an Admin plugin and on a Template...
It turns out that all versions of Internet Explorer do not like self closing script tags or as the Internet world calls it, element minimization. Self closing script tags are perfectly valid XHTML elements, but invalid HTML elements. Internet...
Recently I encountered a problem whereby viewing thumbnails for images within EPiServer's file manager would not render correctly. After much investigation as to why this problem occurred, I found that the issue was due to incorrect permissions on...
I’ve been doing some performance tuning on a large site recently, and one of the problems we had was that clicking pages in edit mode was quite slow. Especially when compared to just clicking around on the site in view mode. When you click a page ...
This article will give some examples of how to work with attributes on users in the EPiServer Community. Attributes can also be used on other objects in the commnuity, such as blogs, but this will not be discussed here. Adding attributes To get it...