Monthly Archive: February 2020

Simple string encryption for the EPiServer Dynamic Data Store

This is part of the short dynamic data store article series I mentioned before. The layer mentioned may be found in Simple EPiServer Dynamic Data Store (DDS) layer and was mainly created to ease unit testing of DDS code. Since there may be a need to store sensitive information in the DDS I have extended this DdsService with encryption functionality (the actual encryption is not …

Rendering preview blocks with Advanced Reviews while using React for Episerver websites

We are trying out the Advanced CMS add-on Advanced Reviews for one of our Episerver websites at my current client. The thing is that we are also using JOS Content Serializer for turning our Episerver content items into serializable objects in order to feed our React frontend (described in previous articles). This caused issues for external reviewers while trying to preview ContentArea blocks in view …