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In many situations we need to find out what ID a page type has. One such example is when programmatically creating a new PageData object. The code usually looks something like this: int pageTypeID = ??? PageData newPage = DataFactory.Instance.GetD...
As you may have noticed over the last month, Joel Abrahamsson has created a module to EPiServer called PageTypeBuilder. In a short explanation PageTypeBuilder brings joy into developing with EPiServer! No more need for ranting around in admin mode...
In the this part we’ll finish the Bananas site by allowing some pages to have a specific menu name and adding meta descriptions to all pages. In the process we’ll see an example of how we can work with interfaces and an advanced example of using...
In this tutorial I’ll demonstrate how to build a simple but fully functional site using EPiServer CMS and Page Type Builder . In doing so I’ll show basic usage of Page Type Builder as well as some advanced usages. The example project To illustrate...
In this part we’ll look at more advanced ways to access property values in page type classes and how that enables us to create page types that encapsulate application logic. Objective In previous parts of the tutorial we have created a sample...
In this part of the tutorial we’ll take a look at inheritance between page types and how we can explicitly specify which type an EPiServer property should be of. What we learned in the previous part In the previous part of the tutorial you where...
I wanted to make a tool that would help me backup my content. I decided to make a scheduled service that would export my content from EPiServer and put it with the code. I could then save it in the TFS with the code. After having a little chat wit...
I’ve been using EPiServer Composer (formerly X3) for over a year now. EPiServer Composer can allow you to develop a very nice drag and drop interface for your editors, essentially allowing them to layout areas of new pages as and when they’re...