Long Running SQL Queries and Timeouts

I’m doing some work on a site with a huge database and needed to delete a couple of properties from a page type, which repeatedly gave me SQL timeout exceptions. In EPiServer CMS 4 the timeout coul... [ Read full article ]

01 September 2009  1 Comments

FindPagesWithCriteria and Performance

Lately I have heard from several developers that FindPagesWithCriteria is evil, and should be avoided at all costs. I’ve heard it from different people, in different unrelated cases, and some... [ Read full article ]

23 August 2009  13 Comments

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Edit Panel plug-in performance

I’ve been doing some performance tuning on a large site recently, and one of the problems we had was that clicking pages in edit mode was quite slow. Especially when compared to just clicking aroun... [ Read full article ]

20 August 2009  2 Comments

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Breaking Change in R2 Might Affect Security

In EPiServer CMS 5 R2 there is a change in the GetPage() functionality which is marked as a breaking change . The change concerns security, specifically how security is checked when you call... [ Read full article ]

15 October 2008  8 Comments

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Installer Issues in R2

The new installer shows great promise, but as usual - new things need new adjustments. First; a big hands up to the brave souls in the EPiServer development team diving into the deep end and making... [ Read full article ]

14 October 2008  3 Comments

Strange Error Message In CMS 5

I was deploying a new CMS 5 R1 (SP?) site today, to a server without EPiServer Manager, brand new .NET Framework 3.5 installation and generally nothing set up as it should. Having copied, configure... [ Read full article ]

13 October 2008  0 Comments

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EPiServer System Files Have Moved

If you’ve read Fredrik's recent blog postings , or checked the folder of a newly installed R2 site, you might have noticed that the list of folders has shrunk. “Private” files, or system files,... [ Read full article ]

11 October 2008  6 Comments

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Client Caching in R2 and Localhost

I was investigating some other issue in R2 and was looking at the output in Fiddler . Much to my surprise, all the requests had caching set to private, and even though resources are cached (they wi... [ Read full article ]

11 October 2008  4 Comments

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A little gotcha with the Multiplexing Membership Provider

The MultiplexingMembershipProvider will call GetUser before it calls ValidateUser when authenticating a user. If you set the default provider to be your own provider, ValidateUser will be called... [ Read full article ]

08 September 2008  2 Comments

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Speed up Visual Studio

Some tips and tricks I've picked up along the road. They might not give you a huge performance improvement, but the golden rule to disable or remove things you do not need, is always for the better... [ Read full article ]

24 June 2008  10 Comments

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The EPiCode Cache Framework

On the EPiServer Developer Summit I demonstrated a way to speed up your lists by caching the content after the first initial loading, using a small framework that helps you extract the code that... [ Read full article ]

15 June 2008  2 Comments

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Join us on IRC

For some time now (over a year actually), we have had an #epicode channel on irc.freenode.org. We initially meant it to be a place to discuss the modules on EPiCode, but it has turned out to be a... [ Read full article ]

13 June 2008  3 Comments

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Developer Summit Presentation

For all of you that attended my presentation at the EPiServer Developer Summit on Friday, thank you so much for attending! We filled the biggest room! Hope you liked what you saw, and learned... [ Read full article ]

03 June 2008  6 Comments

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Using the Gaia ajax framework in EPiServer

If you're working with Gaia Ajax Widgets in your EPiServer project, you need to read this blog post . In short, it fixes a problem where the Gaia callbacks are done in the context of your start pag... [ Read full article ]

11 April 2008  1 Comments

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Taking Control of Property Rendering

I answered a question in the developer forum today, about the span tags that the EPiServer:Property control renders when you pass it the name of a PropertyString property. The thing is; the Propert... [ Read full article ]

28 February 2008  1 Comments

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Opening a new EPiServer CMS 5 SP1 project in VS 2008

When you install a new EPiServer CMS 5 project using the EPiServer CMS Manager, the .csproj file shipped is for Visual Studio 2005 SP1. Opening the project in Visual Studio 2008 will start the... [ Read full article ]

30 January 2008  4 Comments

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EPiServer CMS 5 SP1 has shipped

You can grab it on the Knowledge Center . Make sure you use the new EPiServer CMS Manager. One of the new things in the SP1 release is the Content Channel Service, which can be used to feed and... [ Read full article ]

22 January 2008  1 Comments

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Compare and keep language files in sync

In my opinion, one of the coolest features of EPiServer is the way language resources are handled. The ease of use and flexibility of xml files in the /lang directory is very powerful. At startup,... [ Read full article ]

14 January 2008  2 Comments

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Multiplexing Provider and Security

The Multiplexing providers in EPiServer CMS 5 allows several role and membership providers to be chained together, thus attempting to authenticate and authorize users against different providers.... [ Read full article ]

11 January 2008  1 Comments

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EPiServer CMS 5 and Windows Vista

Personally I haven't installed Vista - yet. Don't know when, but I don't really see the point right now, I've got the tools I need, and developing on Windows XP with VS 2005 or 2008 is slow enough ... [ Read full article ]

10 January 2008  3 Comments

EPiTrace logger