Blog entries tagged with EPiServer CMS 5

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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LINQ Extensions for EPiServer

by: Allan Thræn

The topic of this post is something that in a short time has climbed very high on my personal wish-list for EPiServer. By now Christmas has both come and gone, without Santa dropping off any kind of ELINQ (nice name I thought off, eh) under my... [ Read full article ]

04 January 2008  3 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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Hint: The Mysterious Tilde

by: Allan Thræn

Here's a typical rookie mistake that can even puzzle experienced developers from time to time. When working with EPiServer CMS 5 you can get quite used to using the tilde character ("~") in various URL's. When you are coding against a web... [ Read full article ]

06 March 2008  1 Comments

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Customizing XForms Appearance - The Easy Way

by: Allan Thræn

Yesterday I was assisting a partner in setting up a simple "Subscribe" xform on a customer web site. It was a fairly simple setup: An input-text box for the email (validating as email), and a submit button, that should store the email in the... [ Read full article ]

06 March 2008  1 Comments

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When and Where to attach DataFactory Event Handlers

by: Allan Thræn

This is a classic problem with a lot of solutions: You're building a fancy plug-in for your favorite CMS (EPiServer of course), trying to fulfill your lifelong ambition to become an EPiServer MVP, when you suddenly realize that you your plugin to... [ Read full article ]

06 March 2008  2 Comments

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Quick Category Search

by: Allan Thræn

A request I often get is the ability to search through a lot of pages and list the pages that are in one or more specific categories. Imagine that you have an article library of say 60.000 articles and your editors have carefully categorized these... [ Read full article ]

08 April 2008  0 Comments

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What a Summit!

by: Allan Thræn

So, now 3 days of learning, mingling and partying is over - and although exhausted I'm still high after attending such a great EPiServer Partner / Developer summit. It was really a pleasure to see and meet so many old and new friends, partners,... [ Read full article ]

01 June 2008  0 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  3 Comments

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Pimp up your search II

by: Allan Thræn

A common wish for people owning a web site search engine is to be able to directly influence the ranking - like boosting a certain page for some specific keywords. The built-in search in EPiServer CMS is very plain and simple and doesn't seem to... [ Read full article ]

26 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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