Unable to send e-mail without local SMTP server

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

When you try to send e-mail through an external SMTP server using the System. Net. Mail namespace classes, you may encounter an error saying "Cannot get IIS pickup directory". Often this has to do with permissions, but I recently discovered another... [ Read full article ]

12 December 2007  2 Comments

If you're getting full postbacks with ASP.NET AJAX and EPiServer 4.62

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

After having 1) referenced System. Web. Extensions and 2) added all the necessary entries to web. config, we still got full postbacks when submitting through an UpdatePanel in an EPiServer 4.62 website. The solution As it turns out, the culprit... [ Read full article ]

07 February 2008  1 Comments

Handle 404 exceptions in EPiServer CMS

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

As many of you know, there is a comprehensive 404 handler available for download through EPiCode. However, I just wanted a simple way of specifying a PageID and have that page act as a 404 response. Easier said than done it seems I actually got my... [ Read full article ]

07 February 2008  9 Comments

Programmatically configure customErrors redirects

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

I previously posted a possible solution for handling 404 exceptions in EPiServer websites, but here's an alternative and possibly more elegant way of configuring custom error redirects for EPiServer. What I wanted to accomplish I wanted to be able... [ Read full article ]

09 February 2008  5 Comments

When the edit interface works but all pages return 404

by: Ted Nyberg (Hallvarsson & Halvarsson)

This is just a friendly reminder about what to do when all EPiServer pages return a plain 404 File not found, but the edit and admin interfaces work perfectly well. You may even notice that the site works perfectly well using the ASP. NET... [ Read full article ]

30 June 2008  0 Comments