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Blank page in Umbraco site after installing Vega IT’s uSiteBuilder

I ran into some trouble after installing Vega IT‘s uSitebuilder NuGet package on my newly created Umbraco website. The whole site suddenly went blank, and all I could get from the network traffic was a 500-error without body. Nothing was being written to the logs either. I’ve seen blank pages before, and sometimes they’re caused by broken configuration files, so after examining my web.config file …

Surviving IE, or: How to render different markup depending on devices and browsers

The short answer would be, “Create a control adapter, add it to your .browser file and have it applied using browser recognition”. If you want the longer verion, you will have to continue reading. First, let us start with some basics on control adapters. I find them extremely useful tweeking built-in EPiServer (the CMS that I most often find myself working with) controls; especially adding …

Keeping your hair from turning gray, or: How to style the asp:FileUpload control using control adapters

The other day, I got a question from a former collegue of mine who was having trouble styling the ASP.NET FileUpload control, as it renders into a particulary nasty bit of HTML; i.e. an <input type=”file” /> tag. He told me that he would love for it to be just another textbox along with a stupid button. If you have ever tried applying any type …

Allowing web administrators to dynamically update EPiServer language files

When working with EPiServer sites, a not all that uncommon type of support case is the need to change text on a page which is not editable through the Edit mode. Quite often, this text is located in language files on the web server, and it may be rather tiresome for web editors having to send change requests to the support or development team just …

Removing empty fields from EPiServer XForm e-mails

A customer asked me to see what I could do for their XForm order notification e-mails today. Apparently the department handling their incoming orders was receiving really long e-mails with loads of superfluous information; this as every field in the XForm was being submitted to them, and not just the ones containing data. This is the default behaviour of the XForm functionality, which of course …