Add-On Overview of some of the less-known Optimizely Add-Ons We have more than seven hundred packages (717) on Optimizely NuGet feed. Official Optimizely packages are part of this number, but the majority is community driven open-source packages enhancing and
Add-On Optimizely Advanced ContentArea Renderer for Forms is Back! Advanced Content Area Renderer is now available for Optimizely content. However, it would be nice to apply display options to Optimizely Forms elements as well. Background Optimizely.Forms are more
Add-On Optimizely Advanced ContentArea Renderer is Back! If you have used EPiBootstrapArea package - then back in those days we had an opportunity to render Episerver ContentArea items with different DisplayOptions based on Twitter's Bootstrap framework grid
Add-On DeveloperTools are back! Experimental project with handy tools for developers is back for Optimizely v12. DISCLAIMER! Remember, use at your own risk - this is not a supported product! Current Features * View contents
C# Import Your Localized Resources in v7.5 Import functionality has been delayed for several versions of DbLocalizationProvider. However, with the help of community member - this feature has finally been implemented!
Add-On Dynamic Route in ASP.NET Core When MapDynamicControllerRoute Does Not Work Background Creating one of the add-on for Optimizely I had to deal with challenge to register dynamically route for the API controller. Dynamic route here means that user is able
Add-On GoogleProductFeed for Optimizely: Reloaded The previous version of GoogleProductFeed package for EPiServer [https://nuget.optimizely.com/package/?id=Geta.GoogleProductFeed] / Optimizely [https://nuget.optimizely.com/package/?id=Geta.Optimizely.GoogleProductFeed] had some inherited problems.
Logging How to Configure Microsoft.Extensions.Logging in Optimizely CMS11 Extensions.Logging de-facto logging library that class libraries should use at the very least. Where Optimizely (ex. Episerver) CMS11 (running on .NET Framework) would collide with anything from the "new world" (.NET5)?
Asp.Net Core DbLocalizationProvider v7 Out! In this blog post I wanted to highlight some of the most obvious and visible changes to the library. As we jump to the next major version - this was good timing for me to finally materialize some of the pending break changes I was holding back for a very long time.
Asp.Net Core What New APIs Are Coming in Optimizely Content Cloud vNext? I was wondering what new assemblies and public APIs are coming in new version of Content Management System from Optimizely (ex. EPiServer).
EPiServer Episerver Scheduled Jobs - Under the Hood Have you ever wondered what really happens when you run your scheduled job in Episerver? What happens when Episerver misses to fire off your job, what is scheduler and how job status notifications are implemented?
EPiServer Bootstrap Content Area Renderer Update for Episerver Twitter Bootstrap Content Area package hasn't been updated for a while which might mean either no one is using it or it's mature enough that does not require new features :)
EPiServer Localization Provider Update Hi all, Not a huge pile of news and features (those I've saved for v7.0). It's been a while since v1.0 of LocalizationProvider. Originally it has its inception
EPiServer LocalizationProvider Under the Tests Recently I got a question from a very good friend [https://twitter.com/LucGosso] of mine about how to properly unit test localization provider. Tests and even unit ones have
C# Episerver Localization Provider - Major v6 Released! Introduction I'm pleased to announce that v6 of DbLocalizationProvider is finally out to the wild. This stressful and lots of unknowns period was great timing for me to sit down
C# Episerver ContentArea with AllowedTypes Specified by Interface Background Once an interesting question was asked on Episerver Community Slack space [https://episervercommunity.slack.com/] how to work with ContentAreas and specifically [AllowedTypes] and specify restrictions based on interface.
C# Episerver DeveloperTools - UI Refresh This blog post is about latest features and bug fixes added to v3.5 of Episerver DeveloperTools package
EPiServer LocalizationProvider v5.7 Is Out It's been a while since last Episerver DbLocalizationProvider package update. Fortunately this release includes couple bug fixes delivered by amazing developer community and also few new features. What's included in
EPiServer Object Cache Viewer Joins EPiServer Developer Tools It's super cool to work together with the community and unite effort across all areas to strengthen EPiServer ecosystem and toolsets. After chat with Joe Mayberry [https://github.com/jaytem]
EPiServer How Risky are EPiServer.DeveloperTools on Production Environment? We had a great conversation at the EPiServer Partner Close-Up conference with one and only Allan Thræn [https://twitter.com/athraen] about future plans and such. And one of the
EPiServer Asp.Net Mvc Areas for EPiServer Forms This blog post describes how to add support for overriding Episerver Forms element templates located in Asp.Net Mvc Areas.
C# Localized Episerver Enum Properties Time to time I receive questions on how to properly translate System.Enum based properties on Episerver using DbLocalizationProvider package. The support has been around for quite while, but I've never really blogged about it properly.
EPiServer Episerver Init Infrastructure - Under the Hood Having couple of initializable modules Episerver solution - and everything works as expected. But what really happens under the hood and how Episerver initialization system really works?
EPiServer Durable Episerverless There been couple of times when we have presented Episerver and Azure Functions (aka "episerverless") and how they play well together. However, looking at overall our sample application architecture - it still seems to be a bit brittle and composed together out of some small moving parts.
Localization Localization Provider - 5th generation out! Freshly baked v5.0 is out now. Changes in this version (some of them are breaking ones). Mostly release was focused on .Net Core AdminUI improvements and new features.
