Connection string Archive

Encrypting connectionStrings for ImageVault Core

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 how I would go about encrypting the connectionStrings file. RSA encryption on ImageVault Core’s connectionStrings For a website’s connectionStrings you’d normally just have to run something like …

EPiServer Indexing Service unable to find index or segments exceptions

I got two exceptions today trying to use an EPiServer SearchDataSource in order to find files in the VPP directories. Not rocket science solving them, but I thought that I would make a short post anyway hoping it might make somebody’s life easier. System.IO.IOException: \\server\VPP\Global\index not a directory The first exception occured as my VPP folders did not yet contain index directories. The EPiServer Indexing …