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EPiServer Search in Edit Mode does not work, or only works for page ids
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…
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Visual Studio project not showing in Manage NuGet Packages for solution select project window
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…
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ContentLink ArgumentNullException while saving AccessControlList on EPiServer page created programmatically
I received a disturbing ArgumentNullException today while removing read access for the Everyone role on new pages created in codebehind. Not really difficult once you figure it out, but I thought I’d provide an example to show how it may be done. EPiServer ContentLink value cannot be null calling ACL.Save method At first glance it…
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Notes about default property values in EPiServer 7.5
I needed to set default values for a couple of my EPiServer 7.5 block and page properties today, and found Per Mange Skuseth‘s article on Attribute-based default values. I really like Per’s way of dealing with them, as you get to have each default value in connection with the property that it will affect, rather…
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EPiServer 7.5 throwing System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): editSaveContentVersionData: The WorkContentId dosen´t exist (WorkContentID=0)
A short note on another EPiServer exception that I encountered today while trying to save a newly created EPiServer page programmatically from codebehind. The reason for it is rather self explaining looking back at it. It’s not possible to force the current version as it does not exist yet, Doh.. So just finding myself content…
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An alternate way of managing your tabs in EPiServer 7.5; adding and changing
I needed to add a few extra tabs to our EPiServer 7.5 installation last week, and found Per Magne Skuseth‘s comment on Tabs and sort index to be really useful. Of course I managed to alter the piece of code beyond recognition while integrating it into my current project’s architecture. Here is a StructureMap twist…
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Notes on translating ContentType, Property, and Group names in EPiServer’s Edit Mode
I ran into a bit of trouble the other day trying to get my current project’s EPiServer installation to display proper translations from our custom language files for the PageType group names when creating new pages. Luckily EPiServer’s Kristoffer Sjöberg quickly helped me getting it sorted :) So, here are my notes on the matter.…
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Using NLog with EPiServer and log4net
In my current EPiServer project we decided to use NLog for our logging needs rather than going with log4net. Since EPiServer has a dependency on the latter we wanted a way of bridging EPiServer’s log messages to our own NLog setup. This was accomplished by creating a new appender for log4net, redirecting all relevant log…
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Security fix for the Language File Editor tool in EPiServer 7.5
I applied the security fix that I made for the EPiServer CMS 6 R2 version of the Language File Editor tool to the EPiServer 7 version that Hannu Hartikainen made earlier. Also did some code refactoring and removed the possibility for web administrators to create their own language files, as well as deleting existing ones;…
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Security fix for the Language File Editor tool in EPiServer CMS 6 R2
In 2011 I wrote a tool allowing web administrators to edit EPiServer’s language XML files through admin mode. As the code was constructed it assumed that the environment was properly set up (i.e. securing the plugins preventing unauthorized access), thus trusting the user. Anyhow, failing to do so opened up for unauthorized users to read/modify/delete…
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EPiServer’s ContentReference.StartPage is an empty reference when lacking binding
I was setting up a new port for SSL on my local development machine for added security on a client’s EPiServer 7.5 website when I stumbled across an exception that was not all at once obvious. I set up a new https binding in the IIS along with a self signed certificate; my normal unsecure…
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Cache manager easing cache handling for EPiServer 7.5 with ISynchronizedObjectInstanceCache
We had this splendid little cache manager in my previous project that simplified handling caching for us. It was written by a former collegue of mine, Patrik Akselsson, and last week I found a need for a similar thing at my new client’s. Looking back at what I already had, I set about making a…
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Resolving your own and EPiServer’s dependencies without the EPiServer ServiceLocator
I recently got my hands on a new project at work and wanted to see if I could avoid using EPiServer‘s ServiceLocator to resolve the dependencies in my code. From previous projects I was used to being able to inject whatever I needed directly through the constructor, and felt that I wanted to continue doing…
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Configuration file changes upgrading from EPiServer 7.0 to 7.5
All is set. You got the final go from your client to move their site from EPiServer 7.0 to 7.5, and from here on it should be a walk in the park. Coffee is brewed, installation packages and VPP migration tools downloaded, extracted and at the ready. The EPiServer’s Deployment Center upgrade process finishes without…
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Solution for DirectoryNotFoundException moving EPiServer 7 site – Could not find a part of the path {wwwroot}\ClientResources\ClientResources\packages.config
I encountered an annoying DiretoryNotFoundException while moving one of my existing EPiServer 7 hobby sites to a new server, and thought that a quick note about it would be in order. The exception was this; Could not find a part of the path ‘D:\Projekt\MyProject\src\MyProject.Web\ClientResources\ClientResources\packages.config’. After some well spent time reading the configuration files I found…
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Moving stuff to EPiServer 7.5: Old GetLastVersion method using obsolete code
Taking your EPiServer CMS 6 site to 7.5 requires you to make a few code changes. I thought I’d share a piece of code for getting the latest version of a page (published or not), as all you seem to get from Google is EPiServer 6 examples using obsolete methods; like in the one below.…
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Scheduled jobs with input parameters in EPiServer 7.5
The other day I got a question from a collegue of mine whether or not the piece I wrote on supplying scheduled jobs with input parameters (EPiServer CMS6R2) would still work for version 7.5. I suspected it would, but since I wanted to make sure I set up two of EPiServer’s Alloy template sites; one…
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Easier log file retrieval in EPiServer 7.5 for environments with limited access to servers
I wrote a small EPiServer admin tool the other day in order to make it easier to retrieve log files without having direct access to the webserver. It is a rather straight forward piece that lists the files of a certain directory, and writes their content to the response output stream when clicked on. Limitations…
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Orphaned translation scanner for EPiServer language files
My current project has undergone some rather large changes the last couple of months; core functionality being moved out of the solution, functionality needing to be cleaned away and so forth. I suspected that we were left with a rather large number of stray translations in our EPiServer language files because of this, so I…
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MVP and EPiServer CMS 6 R2
I quite often get questions on how we deal with testing and inversion of control in my current web forms project running on EPiServer CMS 6. I wrote an article about it when I first started working with it, and feel that maybe it is time to add some supplemental notes on how to include…