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EPiServer Extension methods, part 1 of many
So Frederik Vig started a community project around EPiServer Extensions which I believe is a great initiative. Already having a great number of extension methods that we are currently using. Rather...
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Modify the built-in EPiServer properties
When you are creating a page type in EPiServer you have a lot of configuration settings you can do. You can set the default value, hide it from the Edit interface, make it mandatory and so on. For the...
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Scheduled jobs in EPiServer CMS 6
There are a few hidden bits in EPiServer CMS 6 that hasn’t been talked much about, one of them being the enhancements to the scheduled jobs. These new features include the ability to interrupt the...
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Embedding EPiServer language files
One of the things that I’m always aiming for when creating a module for EPiServer is that you should be able to install it simply by dropping a single assembly to the bin folder. There should be no or...
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Using custom forms in an EPiServer MVC block template
With EPiServer 7 came the introduction of two new features; the ability to divide a page into blocks or smaller reusable components and support for the ASP.NET MVC framework in templates. If we want to...
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Deployment of EPiServer add-on modules as ZIP packages
...we have added a virtual path provider with support for ZIP files to the EPiServer.Framework package called ZipArchiveVirtualPathProvider.
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A new logging API in EPiServer Framework
For as long as I can remember, the logging framework of choice for EPiServer has been log4net, but this is about to change now! Well, I say that, in reality we are only changing the way we are using...
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Performance improvements in the PropertyDataCollection
When we took a look at what performance improvements that we could make to the EPiServer CMS platform there was one thing that stood out like a sore thumb, namely the PropertyDataCollection. The main...
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Improved support for canonical URLs
Search engines often highlights the importance of using canonical URLs to signify the preferred URL that should be used when the same content can be reached using multiple URLs. And while EPiServer has...
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How to compare ContentReference instances
I thought that I would mention a small improvement that was released with CMS 8 the other day. It’s a minor change in regards to comparisons of ContentReference instances, but as this is an area that...
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