Cristian Libardo´s Blog Posts

Shell Playground

Sometimes it’s okay to have fun. A while back we had fun trying things in OnlineCenter and the result is the Playground. For designers this is a catalog of styles available on the dashboard. For developers it’s an insight into the OnlineCenter API...

Legacy redirect in CMS 6

Fredrik wrote a very interesting and informative post about changes to the configuration files. The post also brings a whole new meaning to the term configuration management. An issue brounght up are changes of the URL to the edit and admin...

What and why is epiJQuery?

A feature in EPiServer CMS 6 that might catch your eye is a dashboard. An interesting technical aspect of it is that it’s largely a client based solution. As such anyone planning to do their magic on it might have the good fortune to enter the...

Quick intro to ASP.NET MVC for the WebForm developer

To prepare for future discussions around dashboard gadgets I thought it was a good idea to introduce the ASP.NET MVC framework. The main buidling blocks of the ASP.NET MVC framework is routing, controllers, views and the model support. There are...

Enabling gadget development quickly

Preparing your project for gadget development is as simple as tweaking a few xml files. In fact, it’s so easy even a machine can do it if you download and execute the following file through Deployment Center: Add MVC Gadgets to PublicTemplates.epi...