If you’re using an appender layout like this: 1: layout type ="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout" > 2: conversionPattern value ="%date %level [%thread] %type.%method - %message%n" /> 3: layout > The conversion pattern is: %date %level [%thread]...

I’m doing some work on a site with a huge database and needed to delete a couple of properties from a page type, which repeatedly gave me SQL timeout exceptions. In EPiServer CMS 4 the timeout could be tweaked with the EPnQueryTimeout value under...

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...

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 ...

In EPiServer CMS 5 R2 there is a change in the GetPage() functionality which is marked as a breaking change. The change concerns security, specifically how security is checked when you call DataFactory. GetPage(). Up to now, which means all...