Blog entries tagged with Code Samples

A Simple Page Import Web Service

by: Allan Thræn

In EPiServer CMS 5 there's a couple of very useful Web Services that gives you pretty thorough access to do just about anything you please - at least with regards to adding / searching / modifying pages. However the Web Services can be pretty... [ Read full article ]

09 November 2007  2 Comments

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Show Published Pages (Versions) in a Specific Time Span

by: Allan Thræn

Since I'm still trying to learn my way around EPiServer I grab whatever chance I get of coding something a bit out of the ordinary, and today was no different. At a Developer Course I was attending, the need came up for a page that would list all... [ Read full article ]

16 November 2007  0 Comments

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XSLT in EPiServer CMS 5

by: Allan Thræn

Personally I'm not a big fan of neither XSLT nor XML. In fact, my feelings around XML is expressed in this quote I heard recently: "XML is like children. They start out cute and small, then they grow..." (I don't remember who said it - if it was... [ Read full article ]

23 November 2007  3 Comments

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Playing around with LINQ and EPiServer CMS 5

by: Allan Thræn

I finally found a moment to begin playing around with EPiServer CMS 5 in conjunction with LINQ and the cool features of C# 3.0. Ever since I first saw Anders Hejlsberg present  his thoughts on LINQ several years ago, I've been dying to get my hands... [ Read full article ]

26 November 2007  0 Comments

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File Selection Drop Down List

by: Allan Thræn

I just got a request for a code-sample on how to display a list of files from the unified file system in a drop-down list in EPiServer CMS 5, so I composed a small example (thanks for your kind help, Ruwen! ). First I define the drop-down-list -... [ Read full article ]

27 November 2007  0 Comments

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Nightly Fun with 301

by: Allan Thræn

WARNING: GEEKY STUFF.   Do you ever have difficulty falling asleep at night, because your brain begins to code the moment your tired body hits the bed? Well, I do every once in a while. And then I know that I can either toss and turn all night or... [ Read full article ]

14 February 2008  2 Comments

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Custom Google: EPiServer Developer Search

by: Allan Thræn

Once again Google has (beta) released a cool utility based on their global search. This time it's the long-awaited custom search feature, that allows anybody to easily build their own vertical search portal, searching just the sites they find... [ Read full article ]

15 February 2008  1 Comments

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EPiServer Pie with freshly cut MVC

by: Allan Thræn

Or how to integrate ASP. NET MVC into an existing WebForms Web Application Project.   After having studied Scott Guthrie's excellent posts on ASP. NET MVC and attended a pretty good Tech Talk at Microsoft yesterday I decided the time was right to... [ Read full article ]

21 February 2008  5 Comments

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Multiple Templates for a PageType

by: Allan Thræn

It looks like a Dev / Partner summit is the perfect birthplace for ideas to grow. Here is yet another idea that grew out of discussions with partners, eMVPs and other Guru's at the summit: It could be cool to have multiple renderings (templates) for... [ Read full article ]

10 June 2008  1 Comments

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How to check if a Property is marked as Searchable

by: Allan Thræn

A couple of times I've been asked how to check if a property on a page is set to be Searchable. It can be very handy to know, if you are making a search engine integration - or any other kind of textual processing of EPiServer CMS content, for that... [ Read full article ]

23 June 2008  1 Comments

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Output EPiServer Pages as PDF

by: Allan Thræn

Got a question today from a partner about how he could make a "Download this page as PDF" functionality on a customers web site. I suppose there's quite a lot of ways to do it (just as many as there are HTML -> PDF libraries out there) but I... [ Read full article ]

07 July 2008  0 Comments

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Pimp up your search I

by: Allan Thræn

Let's face it, the EPiServer CMS built-in search isn't the best in the world. Neither is it intended to be - there are a lot of 3rd party search engines available for EPiServer that are great at what they are doing - and in general I highly... [ Read full article ]

21 July 2008  2 Comments

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Building your own Page Provider: Northwind

by: Allan Thræn

EPiServer CMS 5 R2 CTP is awesome! I've now finally found a few hours to play around with some of the new cool functionality and I really like what I see. In particular I've grown fond of custom page providers. It's extremely cool to be able to... [ Read full article ]

08 August 2008  1 Comments

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Allan Thræn

About me

I'm  a  developer on the Research team, based in the danish EPiServer office. My technical interests is typically focused around search, information management, artificial intelligence, usability in content management and most of all making cool plugins and code samples for EPiServer.

On top of this blog I have the blog Allan On Technology and I plan to crosspost a lot in the future.

 

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