Archive of EPiServer
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Add powerful image resizing, cropping and manipulation support to your EPiServer website
Posted on January 19, 2013 by Frederik Vig in ASP.NET, EPiServerI've used this module in several of my projects, both EPiServer and standard ASP.NET applications. Image Resizer is open source and contains the core module with a bunch of plugins on top that add extra features, you can...
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Strongly typed access to your page data objects inside ItemTemplate
Posted on May 10, 2012 by Frederik Vig in ASP.NET, EPiServerHere's a little quick tip on how I usually set up my code to get strongly typed access to my page types inside Repeaters, ListViews, PageLists etc. I use PageTypeBuilder in all my projects so I'm going to use it in...
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Manually upgrading the database from EPiServer Commerce R2 SP1 to EPiServer Commerce R2 SP2
Posted on May 9, 2012 by Frederik Vig in EPiServerHere's an overview over the SQL scripts you need to execute to manually upgrade your sites commerce database from EPiServer Commerce R2 SP1 to EPiServer Commerce R2 SP2. C:\Program Files (x86)\EPiServer\CMS\6.1.379.0\Install\Modules\EPiServer Commerce 1.1.2.62\Setup\cms_db_upgrade.sql C:\Program Files (x86)\EPiServer\CMS\6.1.379.0\Install\Modules\EPiServer Commerce 1.1.2.62\MediachaseECF\Data\DeploymentPackage\SqlScripts\Update\ecf_db_ApplicationSystem_update.sql C:\Program Files (x86)\EPiServer\CMS\6.1.379.0\Install\Modules\EPiServer Commerce 1.1.2.62\MediachaseECF\Data\DeploymentPackage\SqlScripts\Update\ecf_db_BusinessFoundation_update.sql C:\Program...
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Faster EPiServer sites – image optimization
Posted on May 6, 2012 by Frederik Vig in ASP.NET, EPiServerContinuing on our goal to get the fastest EPiServer site possible, let's take on images, specifically images that editors upload. In my experience even after launching a site that scores almost a complete score with YSlow, Page...
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Using the ASP.NET Web API Framework with EPiServer
Posted on February 23, 2012 by Frederik Vig in ASP.NET, EPiServerWith the ASP.NET Web API framework we can easily build restful API's that allow us to expose our data to a whole bunch of different clients, everything from rich JavaScript applications to Flash or mobile apps. The cool thing about...
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Open Source MobilePack version 1.0
Posted on February 8, 2012 by Frederik Vig in EPiServerI'm proud to announce that MobilePack is now in version 1.0 (stable). The team (@athraen, @jacobkhan and me) have been hard at work fixing bugs and adding new features for this release. New features/bug fixes Storing resized images for...
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Geta.oEmbed version 1.2 is out
Posted on November 19, 2011 by Frederik Vig in EPiServerDue to a changes in the oEmbed API I'm using for this module (it got bought by Embedly), I've updated the code to use the new API instead. The biggest change on your part is that you need to...
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Faster EPiServer sites – client side performance
Posted on October 9, 2011 by Frederik Vig in ASP.NET, EPiServerFirst part of a new series where I'm going to focus on performance and scaling. I'm going to go through all the best practices we as EPiServer developers should know about, not only to create EPiServer sites that are fast,...
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Installing EPiServer Live Monitor on IIS 7 running .NET 4
Posted on October 7, 2011 by Frederik Vig in EPiServerA client asked me to install Live Monitor for EPiServer CMS on their site today. Simple enough task, I started by reading the tech-note for the installation: Installation Instructions - Live Monitor. First problem Where is the installation file!? After...
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Tags version 0.2 released for EPiServer CMS
Posted on September 5, 2011 by Frederik Vig in EPiServerI've done a few updates to the Tags module for EPiServer CMS. The major change is that it's now using the page's PageGuid instead of PageLink (PageReference). This guaranties that the reference to the page will be correct, even...
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