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Baking Round Shaped Software

Baking Round Shaped Software

This is the story how I discovered clean, understandable and maintainable software architecture. Why it's round shape and not pentagon, hexagon or any other *-gon shape? In this blog post

Configure EPiServer Media Auto Publish on Upload

Configure EPiServer Media Auto Publish on Upload

In this post we will enhance media auto-publish option to gain more control over what's going to be automatically published and what will stay for manual publishing. EPiServer gives site

Apply DisplayOptions for EPiServer.Forms Elements

Apply DisplayOptions for EPiServer.Forms Elements

Apply DisplayOption for EPiServer.Forms Elements Would you like to use this feature also for EPiServer.Forms? In this blog post I'm gonna show you how to do that. Background

EPiServer Twitter Bootstrap Content Area Renderer Updates

Here comes small updates for the Content Area renderer in the latest version: Now EPiServer.Forms are supported Possibility to have your own Css classes DisplayOption is now available in block template as well (if needed) Some smaller bug fixes Naming Challenges As you

EPiServer DbLocalizationProvider - fresh 2.0 is out!

Why? You might ask, but changes I guess is the only constant thing in this industry. DbLocalizationProvider is witnessing new version and some cool features covered in more details below. Also internally provider survived quite huge refactoring activities, while I was redesigning from central

Specify Default DisplayOption in the Content Area

Specify Default DisplayOption in the Content Area

Time to time when working on various projects we come across requirement to control somehow which DisplayOption will be selected as default, once content is placed inside particular ContentArea. As

Db Localization Provider - Part 2: Configuration and Extensions

In this blog post we are going through some of the configuration options available for DbLocalizationProvider for EPiServer. You might be wondering what can and should be configurable for localization provider in the context of the EPiServer, but there are few things. Configuration Setup

Db Localization Provider - Part 1: Resources and Models

Resources and Models This is first post about more details inside DbLocalizationProvider for EPiServer. In this post we will go through localization approach for arbitrary resources that can be used from the code to provide some message to the user or anywhere else where

EPiServer Database Localization Provider - Released!

Background Why on the Earth I would ever want to change my EPiServer localization system? EPiServer provides you with a way to organize localization resources using set of Xml files. Working on multi-lingual projects and seeing how support teams are struggling and bored with

Create Your Library Configuration API for EPiServer

Time comes when you need to extent EPiServer functionality by providing your own library with new or modified functionality. I'm big fan of configuration via code. Which may give you possibility to configure some features with LambdaExpression, e.g. () => true to ensure that

<head> driven by Content Area

For some powerful sites and editors sometimes it's wise to give them power to manipulate some stuff in <head> area. One of the simplest way to give editors this possibility is to create ContentArea where editors could create particular set of available

Year in Review

This is perfect timing for a busy people like us in IT industry to stop by and look back on the path that has been walked and some good things accomplished. Below is a short summary of things that I hope you will find

Update EPiServer Commerce SKU price in lightweight way - Service Api

Lately I've been playing around EPiServer Service API. I found these interfaces really simple and lightweight way to manipulate with your catalog's content and characteristics of the items in the catalog. This blog post will show you the way how you can update SKU

Row support added to Bootstrap ContentArea

With helpful support from Huilaaja (@huilaaja) Bootstrap aware ContentArea renderer (or in other words - EPiBootstrapArea) got row markup support. Originally row support documentation for ContentArea you can find in author's blog post. With author's permission now row support is added to Bootstrap aware

What's new in FeatureSwitch?

It's been while since last FeatureSwitch library release. Just pushed out a bit of stuff held under the hood. Some of them are requested by my lovely consumers :) Here are enlisted some of the latest version features in the library. EPiServer Site Strategy. Now

Creating EPiServer Site Menu out of Block Driven Content

For one of our great customers we needed to make site out of just only few pages and lots of blocks. It reminds sort of single page application, just there is no client-side behavior as original SPA projects have. Anyway, in the middle of

Asp.Net Mvc Areas - Packed as NuGet

Asp.Net Mvc Areas - Packed as NuGet

If you would want to add Asp.Net Areas support to your EPiServer site, you would need to copy some files from my previous blog post. Copying files from someone's

Asp.Net Mvc Areas in EPiServer - Part 2

Asp.Net Mvc Areas in EPiServer - Part 2

Asp.Net Mvc Areas is a great way to organize and structure your EPiServer site. Once you have multi-tenant site where the same EPiServer installation with the same set of

Content Area - Under the Hood, Part 3

This is last blog post in series under the hood of Content Area. In this blog post we will take a look at how and what exactly could be customizable while content area is being rendered. Where and how developer can hook in, what

Content Area - Under the Hood, Part 2

This is second post in series of EPiServer Content Area feature. This time we will take a look at how render templates are selected. In the first part we looked closer on how templates get discovered and registered in Template Model Repository. Selection of

Content Area – Under the Hood, Part 1

Lately I was visiting and revisiting content area, code and functionality around this feature in EPiServer and decided to revisit it once again and take a closer look at what’s really inside. So the blog post is not about what content area is,

Why I felt in love with Ghost

I was running Wordpress. Backed by MySQL. On Azure. It turned out to be not so pleasant experience. Then I switched to SQL Azure. With some help from Barndoo to add abstraction layer on top of DAL for Wordpress. It's was running well enough.

Switch Content Language Everywhere in EPiServer

Switch Content Language Everywhere in EPiServer

Nowadays lot of sites are localized or globalized (depending from which point of view you are looking at). Usually it means that developer has to provide some sort of language

Bootstrap aware Content Area for EPiServer 8.0

I got pull request from Mathias Nohall on GitHub asking for adding support for EPiServer v8.0. This is what we call open-sourcing :). I was thinking this is good moment to introduce some breaking changes in EPiBootstrapArea plugin and give you fresh package compatible

Add localization to your angular.js stuff from EPiServer providers

Sneaking inside default EPiServer’s sample sites (like AlloyTech) we can notice that Xml based localization provider is being used. It’s nice approach to keep all localization resources in single place, well-structured using XPath query to fetch a value and group into multiple