The alternate hreflang tag is a way of letting search engines such as Google know about the different languages that your pages exist in. It’s a signal to the engines that they may use in order to serve…
We needed to change the service account user running the ImageVault Core service in my current client’s production environment the other day. Here are a few reminders on what this actually means; that’ll likely also be useful setting…
There are many different ways to handle global settings in an EPiServer website. Common ones include keeping them in a separate tab on the EPiServer site’s start page, creating a separate settings pages, or using plugins for storing…
We recently added a second website to a client’s EPiServer installation, and wanted to use the existing ImageVault installation here as well. We hit a few snags, but nothing really difficult to handle. ImageVault licenses and publishing sources…
We moved from log4net to NLog in my current client’s EPiServer 8.5 website last year (see Using NLog with EPiServer and log4net for more information). Some time ago we received a request about being able to alter the…
We did a series of load tests this morning on the client’s new public EPiServer website and found an issue with large files being supplied by ImageVault; that is, files large enough as not to be stored in…
Encrypting sensitive information in configuration files seems rather obvious when working with web development. In my current project I got a chance to implement the use of ImageVault 4 in our EPiServer 8 website, and started looking into…
As a complement to the previous article on Extending EPiServer MSBuild config transforms to provide server specific configuration for TCP EventReplication and Licenses I wrote a small Windows PowerShell script example on how you may copy the proper…
I encountered an issue this week setting up the production environment for my current client, as it turned out that we would not be able to use EPiServer‘s UDP multicasting between our servers. Hence, we would have to…
I wrote a small console application to ease the migration of the old EPiServer language files generating language tool initialization classes. These classes are used by the database based language tool from a previous article. Source code at…
I ran into a small ImageVault 4 configuration error setting up a new testing environment for a client’s EPiServer 7.5 website the other day; all of our ImageVault pubished media URLs had stopped working. Or, actually they worked…
A few years back I wrote a small tool allowing web administrators to update EPiServer CMS 6 R2 language files by themselves without the help of their website developers. There were of course a few downsides to this,…
I updated the previous sitemap.xml generator functionality with new support for sitemapindex with batching and bundling of different types of sitemap URLs. My current client has the need to manually add sitemap.xml entries as a supplement to the…
A sitemap.xml file is a useful tool for helping search engines to find relevant pages on your website. This sitemap generator engine for EPiServer is based on loose strategies supporting globalized multilingual content; in other words, mysite.se/sitemap.xml and…
In my current project there is a client need to handle massive amounts of photographs and images in a simple manner. To keep all of them in one well organized place we decided to go with the latest…
We needed to add a checkbox as a dynamic property in my current client’s EPiServer 7.5 site last week. It’s not as straight forward as one might think due to the way that dynamic properties are handled. If…
A client are on their way to migrate a large website from an old platform to a brand new EPiServer 7.5 site running on an IIS webserver. We created a small redirection engine to handle all incoming legacy…
Some time ago I ran into some problems getting Meriwork‘s ImageVault to function on an EPiServer 7.5 website together with the ELMAH logging tool. Today I experienced the same thing, but this time with my project’s own custom…
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…
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…