VPP Archive

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 the cause being, as surprisingly often with this kind of …

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 …

This is a follow up to my previous post about allowing web editors to dynamically change the content of their static error pages (this one). The solution I described would not let us insert any graphical elements requiring database access; such as images from EPiServer’s VPP folders. Here is a way to do it; sample code can be found at the bottom of this post. …