How to do unit testing on EPiServer Find
Changes in the web projectI was interested in if it was possible to do unit testing for a EPiServer Find implementation so I created a new Alloy site and added EPiServer Find to it. After that I wrote...
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Important information if you are having a EPiServer site as a Azure Website
One of the great thing that works with Azure website is the availability to set connectionstrings and AppSettings in the config section of the site in Azure Portal. This makes it possible to get away...
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Building custom criteria for Visitor groups in EPiServer 7.5
Magnus Rahl wrote a blog post on how to do this in CMS 6 R2 and this is a complement to that post that shows how to do it in EPiServer 7.5, for explanations on what visitor groups are and so, please...
View ArticleImportant information about a bug in scheduled tasks
Update: It seems like the code in the old task is not executed, what happens is that EPiServer will keep it in the database and try to execute it as it was scheduled but will fail every time because it...
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How to do custom query and click tracking with EPiServer Find
Custom query trackingSometimes it is necessary to do your own query and/or click tracking for EPiServer Find. One example is if you for example are doing many query’s at the same time for the search...
View ArticleError in EPiServer Self-Optimizing Block
This blog post is just to inform about a bug in EPiServer Self-Optimizing Block that other might encounter. I have reported it to support so it will be handled.We are using EPiServer Self-Optimizing...
View ArticleVideo and powerpoint from my session on migrate a local EPiServer site to a...
In February there were a conference here in Sweden called SweTugg. I hold a session there on how to convert a local EPiServer site into a Azure Website and here are the video of that session. The video...
View ArticleUseful links when developing EPiServer sites
When starting to develop with EPiServer or when you have done it a very long time you will have a great use with blog posts or articles on the web.In this blog post I will try to collect a list of...
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Adding EPiServer Find to Alloy - Part 1
In this blog series, I will show you step-by-step how to add EPiServer Find to a project and how to use it and the most functions in it.Installing EPiServer FindFiltering what to indexImplementing a...
View ArticleAdding EPiServer Find to Alloy - Part 2
In this blog series I am going to show you step by step how you can add EPiServer Find to a project and also how to use it and the most functions in it.Installing EPiServer FindFiltering what to...
View ArticleAdding EPiServer Find to Alloy - Part 3
In this blog series I am going to show you step by step how you can add EPiServer Find to a project and also how to use it and the most functions in it.Installing EPiServer FindFiltering what to...
View ArticleAutomatic schema updates with backup for SQL Azure
From version 8.7 of EPiServer it is now possible to allow EPiServer to make schema changes to the database automatically when there are any in the upcoming version of EPiServer. You can read more about...
View ArticleA breaking change in EPiServer 8 that are not on the list
EPiServer has defined all the breaking changes for EPiServer 8 on this page:http://world.episerver.com/documentation/Items/Upgrading/EPiServer-CMS/8/Breaking-changes/There are one change that effected...
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Setup EPiServer Search in a future safe and stable way
In almost every project I have done where I have the solution in a load balanced way I have had problem with EPiServer Search. Now I have figured out a way to set it up so the problems are nearly gone....
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The known and unknown of Include, IncludeOn, Exclude and ExcludeOn
These four settings have always been and are little headache for me and today I took some time trying to learn more about them.Basically they work like this:Include A type array of typed content to...
View ArticleHow to create a admin sql user through code
Sometimes you need to have a sql user in your development environment and this is easy to create by code on startup of the application. In this example I added an if statement so that this is only...
View ArticleCreate a prop-snippet to support property with virtual
When I am developing a site and creating a pagetype or block type I use the shortcut for creating a property inside Visual Studio a lot. The problem with that one is that is does not include the...
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PropertyAppSettings, a great but kind of hidden build in function in Episerver
This function has been built in for a long time, but the documentation of it is very hidden, so I hope I with this post will inspire more people to use it.This is very usefull if you like to have a...
View ArticleUsing AppSettings instead of ConfigSections for Episerver Find
In the documentation for Episerver Find it says that you should write like this in your app.config or web.config file:<configuration><configSections><section name="episerver.find"...
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Create custom report in MVC with Excel Export
Lately I have seen a couple of questions about how to make a excel export from a custom report and also if it is possible to make a custom report in MVC.I had never done any custom reports in MVC so I...
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