Content Area - Under the Hood, Part 2
This is second post in series of EPiServer Content Area feature. This time we will take a look at how render templates are selected. In the first part we looked closer on how templates get discover...
This is second post in series of EPiServer Content Area feature. This time we will take a look at how render templates are selected. In the first part we looked closer on how templates get discover...
Lately I was visiting and revisiting content area, code and functionality around this feature in EPiServer and decided to revisit it once again and take a closer look at what’s really inside. So th...
Nowadays lot of sites are localized or globalized (depending from which point of view you are looking at). Usually it means that developer has to provide some sort of language switcher for the end-...
I got pull request from Mathias Nohall on GitHub asking for adding support for EPiServer v8.0. This is what we call open-sourcing :). I was thinking this is good moment to introduce some breaking c...
Sneaking inside default EPiServer’s sample sites (like AlloyTech) we can notice that Xml based localization provider is being used. It’s nice approach to keep all localization resources in single p...
This is a blog post about how to add Asp.Net Mvc areas back in town and add full support in EPiServer v7.5. I’ll not spend time to explain what Mvc area is, most probably if you are reading this, y...
FeatureSwitch library got yet another plugin in its family. Glimpse is an amazing framework for troubleshooting and tracing your web application, even in production environment. If by coincidence y...
Thanks to Paul Smith for adding some more EPiServer integration for FeatureSwitch library. Now FeatureSwitch EPiServer integration library is equipped with DDS storage strategy. This was pretty eas...
Set the playground After you have successfully followed Ted’s tutorial on how to create a site using almost nothing else than Visual Studio. Next thing what is in your work queue is to add EPiServ...
This is a blog post telling a short story about one of the developer’s nightmare beast hunting case – System.NullReferenceException. Hunting Game Starts Once up on a time I received an interestin...
EPiServer initialization modules is a great feature to provide plugin facilities for the hosting application. I find initialization modules pretty handful in cases when you need to initialize some ...
When you are acting as façade or in any other “forward-like” role sometimes error handling may come pretty boring stuff to deal with. For instance if you are acting as front-end client proxy class ...
Not so Nice Failure I was hacking around NServiceBus (NSB) application and came across pretty unpleasant failure from NSB. So in short we were using Unicast bus that basically means that producer-s...
This blog posts describes some new features added to latest EPiBootstrapArea plugin library. Register New Display Mode from Code Using EPiBootstrapArea plugin it’s possible to rely on some of the ...
At some point I was questioned about how I’m learning and finding the answers. Generally for the learning process a huge inspiration came from “Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetwar...
I’m starting to collect small fragments from everyday life to understand and increase understanding and readability of code I’m coming across. First piece in this category is gone which I came acro...
Have you ever wrote the code like following to verify that either you have to disable or enable some functionality base on set of conditions (usually different sources): if(ConfigurationManager.Ap...
Initially responsive tables plugin was based on pure CSS implementation transposing table from table view into a block stacking cells vertically. Solution based on CSS rules is good enough to reduc...
ImageResizer is one of top choice library when it comes to optimizing media assets in web context. EPiServer 7.5 introduced really cool feature Asset and media. You need to thank and follow Martin...
Whenever you need to represent data on the website in table format question about responsiveness and page look & feel on smaller devices arise. I found an interesting solution @ CSS Tricks for...