Overriding subscription email formatting

The SubscriptionMail class in the EPiServer. Personalization namespace is the default subscription handler in EPiServer CMS 5. Being a bit curious to how EPiServer generated the content of the subscription emails, I used . NET Reflector to investigate the content of the SubscriptionMail class. For... [ Read full article ]

21 May 2008  1 Comments

Module Packaging

If you have installed the new demo package available on EPiServer World, you have already used the new module installation feature in the EPiServer CMS Manager. This feature is rather new, and IMHO one of the coolest things in EPiServer CMS 5. You need the latest version of the EPiServer CMS... [ Read full article ]

21 April 2008  5 Comments

Replacing Property Rendering Using Adapters

My colleague, Steve, wrote an excellent post on how the new property architecture in CMS 5 allows us take control of the property rendering. This post is a followup, illustrating the same example as Steve did, but this time using Controls Adapters. EPiServer has a base class called EPiServer. Web.... [ Read full article ]

02 March 2008  1 Comments

EPiServer CMS 5 SP1 - Hotfix 1 is available

A lot of you Norwegian developers (and editors) are probably aware of the bug referred to as "the norwegian date problem", officially known as #8099 - Error while parsing a date in Norwegian format. If you have selected Norwegian as your user language and try to copy and paste a page that has been... [ Read full article ]

21 February 2008  2 Comments

Reflect user language in custom properties and plugins

If you are creating custom properties and plugins, you propably want your labels and text to reflect the language that the user has selected as his/hers personal language.   This can be solved by using a custom Translate method similar to this: public static string Translate  ( string langKey... [ Read full article ]

13 February 2008  0 Comments