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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…