Monthly Archive: January 2015

I ran into an ArgumentException setting up a custom plug-in decorated with the IFrameComponent attribute today; I wanted to have it appearing in the right hand area of the EPiServer edit mode. After setting up all views, models and so on, I got the following exception when I tried accessing the site. I fixed this problem by adding my assembly to the protectedModules section of …

We needed to create a custom toolbox in EPiServer‘s edit mode as a central place of keeping additional functionality for a client’s 7.5 website. The global menu seemed like an excellent place to do this. For a brief description on how to get EPiServer’s global menu on your own pages see this previous article. Here is a short note on how it can be done; …

We added a tools menu alternative to EPiServer‘s global menu in my current project, and thought it’d be great if we could make it feel like the editor was still in EPiServer’s edit mode when using our custom tools. I had to do a bit of looking through EPiServer’s source code getting this to work, but here is how to add the menu with all …

We noticed that the edit mode EPiServer search did not function properly for a new website being developed for a client. What caused the issue was mainly two things; the EPiServer search not being set up properly (causing the message Content not found), and some missing handler mappings in the IIS making us only being able to search based on PageIds. Here is a short …

I wanted to include an old SiteMap project of mine in a new Visual Studio solution for a project I am working on, but ran into a bit of trouble wanting to add NuGet packages to it. I was able to install packages on the solution’s projects, and on the SiteMap project separately, but not by clicking on the solution itself selecting the manage NuGet …