Take the community feedback survey now.

Henrik Fransas
Apr 30, 2015
  13664
(8 votes)

Useful links when developing EPiServer sites

When starting to develop with EPiServer or when you have done it a very long time you will have a great use with blog posts or articles on the web.

In this blog post I will try to collect a list of useful links and will update it when I find new ones.

Please give feedback if you have a link that you think is great and should be on the list!

Building large scale sites
http://joelabrahamsson.com/building-large-scale-episerver-sites/

GitFlow
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflows/gitflow-workflow

S.O.L.I.D.
A great session (In swedish) by Chris Klug on SOLID
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVp-JSYX9Q8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R97I2MpCKFU

More info about SOLID
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID

ContentArea
A great first post by Valdis about how Content Area works under the hood
http://tech-fellow.net/2015/04/26/content-area-under-the-hood-part-1/

License
https://license.episerver.com/

Custom Criteria for visitor groups
A blog post on how to create your own criteria
http://world.episerver.com/blogs/Henrik-Fransas/Dates/2015/2/building-custom-criteria-for-visitor-groups-in-episerver-7.5/

Developer guides
These guides are always great to read
http://world.episerver.com/documentation/cms/

EPiServer MeetUp
A community group where we EPiServer developers meets and learn from each other
http://www.meetup.com/EPiServer-Stockholm/
http://www.meetup.com/EPiServer-Oslo/
http://www.meetup.com/EPiServer-London/
http://www.meetup.com/EPiServer-utvecklare-Oresund/
http://www.meetup.com/EPiServer-Developers-in-The-Netherlands/
http://www.meetup.com/Episerver-Chicago/
http://www.meetup.com/Sydney-EPiServer-Users-Group/
http://www.meetup.com/EPiServer-developers-in-New-York/
http://www.meetup.com/EPiServer-CXM-User-Group-Chicago/https://www.meetup.com/Episerver-Developers-in-Serbia/

Deploy to Azure
One article and one blogpost that helps a lot when you want to deploy to Azure
http://world.episerver.com/documentation/Items/Developers-Guide/EPiServer-CMS/75/Deployment/Deployment-scenarios/Deploying-to-Azure-websites/
http://world.episerver.com/blogs/Henrik-Fransas/Dates/2014/8/Converting-wwwactivesolutionse-to-Azure-Website/

Dojo
David has created a great blog post with a lot of usefull links about Dojo
http://www.david-tec.com/2014/08/EPiServer-Dojo-Useful-links/

Validation Attributes
What many might not know is that it is simple to for example add a limit on a int property. David has written a great post on how to do it
http://www.david-tec.com/2012/06/EPiServer-7-Preview---Using-validation-attributes/

Apr 30, 2015

Comments

Johan Book
Johan Book May 1, 2015 05:32 PM

Funny how a list of links cannot be clickable... :-/

Henrik Fransas
Henrik Fransas May 2, 2015 09:16 AM

Johan. Thanks a lot, I did not test that, they are usually being made into links when pasting in them as a url.

will fix it right away :-)

Henrik Fransas
Henrik Fransas May 2, 2015 09:23 AM

So, now it is fixed :)

Please login to comment.
Latest blogs
Optimizely CMS - Learning by Doing: EP06 - Create Header, Footer, Menu & Component/View for Blocks

  Episode 6  is Live!! The latest installment of my  Learning by Doing: Build Series  on  Optimizely CMS 12  is now available on YouTube! This vide...

Ratish | Nov 4, 2025 |

Going Headless: 3 Ways to Store Custom Data in Optimizely Graph

Welcome to another installment of my  Going Headless  series. Previously, we covered: Going Headless: Making the Right Architectural Choices Going...

Michał Mitas | Nov 3, 2025

A day in the life of an Optimizely OMVP - What's New in Optimizely CMS: A Comprehensive Recap of 2025 Updates

Hello and welcome to another instalment of a day in the life of an Optimizely OMVP. On the back of the presentation I gave in the October 2025 happ...

Graham Carr | Nov 3, 2025

Optimizely CMS Mixed Auth - Okta + ASP.NET Identity

Configuring mixed authentication and authorization in Optimizely CMS using Okta and ASP.NET Identity.

Damian Smutek | Oct 27, 2025 |