en https://world.optimizely.com/blogs/Fredrik-Haglund/60Optimizely World http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/?p=464 I do a lot of training and a constant issue that I run into today is that developers do not have IIS setup or some IIS feature is missing. The old Deployment Center had some benefits checking pre-requisites and ensuring that... http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/?p=464 Tue, 01 Mar 2016 22:30:48 GMT Blog post http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/?p=444 A common setup for EPiServer CMS is a load balancing scenario. You have two or more front end web servers and a shared database server. You also need to store uploaded files somewhere. The most common setup for smaller installations is... http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/?p=444 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:30:33 GMT Blog post http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/?p=433 I had a somewhat unusual request from one of my customers with a very locked down corporate network. Their intranet (and other internal web applications) are only available in IE. But for security reasons, you are not allowed to access... http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/?p=433 Sat, 21 Jun 2014 01:35:46 GMT Blog post http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/?p=376 Or why it can be important to override PropertyValueType on your custom properties. When you create a Page Type in code in EPiServer CMS 7 you create a new class inheriting from PageData and add virtual properties for all the... http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/?p=376 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:40:09 GMT Blog post http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2012/12/18/tool-to-assist-during-upgrade-of-episerver-cms/ EPiServer Deployment Center is used to upgrade from one EPiServer CMS version to another. It copies new files to your www root folder, it changes configuration files, it upgrades the database schema and finally executes some tasks by starting an... http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2012/12/18/tool-to-assist-during-upgrade-of-episerver-cms/ Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:26:32 GMT Blog post http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2012/12/10/trainee-program-for-episerver-developers/ I have started to compile a list of skills that are required to be a good web developer working with EPiServer CMS and the Microsoft platform. This list includes links to Pluralsight on-line training to improve these skills so new... http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2012/12/10/trainee-program-for-episerver-developers/ Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:05:28 GMT Blog post http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/?p=360 This is a short demo of how you can use the new simpler way to implement Dynamic Content with a ordinary User Control and some Plug-In attributes. DynamicContentPlugIn is the simplifying solution First add a normal User Control or EPiServer... http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/?p=360 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:51:26 GMT Blog post http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/?p=343 This is maybe a strange blog post  because it is written as an instruction to a junior developer who I have been coaching on how to be better at QA of web sites and a template for a site test... http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/?p=343 Mon, 30 May 2011 09:00:00 GMT Blog post http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2011/05/26/more-small-things-in-episerver-cms-6-r2/ Just a list of small things noted while working with the latest release. Page Folder is not default for File Manager. Message change from “Save” to “Create page folder” when a page folder does not exist. Simple address fixed –... http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2011/05/26/more-small-things-in-episerver-cms-6-r2/ Thu, 26 May 2011 10:21:13 GMT Blog post http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2011/03/22/new-stuff-in-episerver-cms-6-r2/ I like to dig around and here are a few things I did notice in the upcoming EPiServer CMS 6 R2 release. Visitor Groups and personalized content On Page Edit is cross browser compatible (not only available for IE) New... http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2011/03/22/new-stuff-in-episerver-cms-6-r2/ Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:42:22 GMT Blog post http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2010/10/11/fix-alphabetic-sorting-of-pages-in-episerver-cms-5/ I wrote earlier about the annoying fact that alphabetic sorting of child pages in EPiServer CMS 5 is controlled by the collation settings in your database server and suggested that it could be fixed. My first solution that tinkers with... http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2010/10/11/fix-alphabetic-sorting-of-pages-in-episerver-cms-5/ Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:02:37 GMT Blog post http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2010/09/06/issues-with-rendering-in-episerver-preview-tab/ I have noticed that several JavaScript features added to your Page Templates malfunction in the preview-tab in edit mode. It appears that it is a larger issue in Internet Explorer and most editors uses IE (because that is the only... http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2010/09/06/issues-with-rendering-in-episerver-preview-tab/ Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:38:19 GMT Blog post http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2010/08/16/episerver-cms-with-facebook-open-graph/ I just implemented support for the Open Graph protocol on an EPiServer CMS site to improve Facebook Share and Facebook Like. First thing noticed is that it looks that Facebook have problem with national characters like ÅÄÖ and other Unicode... http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2010/08/16/episerver-cms-with-facebook-open-graph/ Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:47:27 GMT Blog post http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2010/04/15/how-to-fix-alphabetic-sorting-of-pages-in-episerver/ Update: Do not try to change collation order in the database! Use this approach instead to sort pages in the page tree in EPiServer CMS 5. I recently got the question how to fix the incorrect alphabetic sorting of child pages... http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2010/04/15/how-to-fix-alphabetic-sorting-of-pages-in-episerver/ Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:14:20 GMT Blog post http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2010/03/26/episerver-cms-6-socketexception-with-vpn/ If you use new EPiServer CMS 6 and have a VPN tunnel open you may get an exception when starting your EPiServer site. SocketException (0x2747): An operation on a socket could not be performed because the system lacked sufficient buffer... http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2010/03/26/episerver-cms-6-socketexception-with-vpn/ Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:09:01 GMT Blog post http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2010/03/23/techdays-dino-espositos-asp-net-4-0-highlights/ In short, ASP.NET 4.0, gives you more control. CSS friendly HTML from Server Controls by default. EnableViewState does not work as you expect in ASP.NET 2.0. With the new ViewStateMode property with values: Inherit, Enable and Disable you get what... http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2010/03/23/techdays-dino-espositos-asp-net-4-0-highlights/ Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:23:22 GMT Blog post http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2010/03/10/configuration-management-and-episerver-cms-6/ This blog post is based on the experience of upgrading one EPiServer CMS 5 project and creating a new one from scratch based on a release candidate of EPiServer CMS 6 and things may change before the release. New configuration... http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2010/03/10/configuration-management-and-episerver-cms-6/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:00:00 GMT Blog post http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2010/03/08/episerver-security-and-access-control-12/ EPiServer CMS is using the standard methods in ASP.NET to handle authentication and authorization. On top of this they have added a few providers to handle authentication and access control to EPiServer assets like pages and files uploaded by editors.... http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2010/03/08/episerver-security-and-access-control-12/ Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:15:00 GMT Blog post http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/?p=223 UPDATED: Code improved after feedback from Henrik Tengelin. It is much easier to read large numbers with with thousands separator but how to get them to work with page validation in a good way? The solution in this case was... http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/?p=223 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:03:00 GMT Blog post http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2010/03/04/reset-trial-counter-for-protexis-licensing-v2/ It is annoying when a trial expires before you had time testing the software. Sometimes it is just enough to reinstall to get a new trial period but usually they hide the information so it is persistent. I used Sysinternal’s... http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2010/03/04/reset-trial-counter-for-protexis-licensing-v2/ Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:13:00 GMT Blog post