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Blog entries posted during 2009

Automatic Sub Category Property Type

I had the need to categorize pages in several different “dimensions”, grouped as subcategories. I wanted to display these categories in different properties, but I didn’t want to display the whole category tree in each property (it’s quite large),...

By: Magnus Rahl

Tags: EPiServer CMS 5 Custom Properties properties Categories

Posted: 25 Sep 2009
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Paging with LINQ – performance

Facing a scenario where I needed to select EPiServerProfile objects based on different criteria and displaying a paged view based on these objects I thought I should use LINQ. Neat syntax and readable code, but what about the performance? There ar...

By: Magnus Rahl

Tags: LINQ .NET Framework 3.5 Performance EPiServerProfile

Posted: 01 Sep 2009
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R2 SP2 Upgrade fails with case sensitive collation

Trying to upgrade a site from EPiServer CMS 5 R2 SP1 to R2 SP2 I ran into problems. The error message I encountered was Invalid column name 'fkPageTypeId' Invalid column name 'pkId' Invalid column name 'fkPageId' The reason turned out to be that t...

By: Magnus Rahl

Tags: EPiServer CMS 5 R2 Deployment Center Upgrade

Posted: 24 Aug 2009
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Generic Property Value Selection Tree

Relate+ uses the Club and Forum association property types to associate pages with Community entities. This is a great way to integrate community and editorial content. However, the edit control for the property uses a flat list of all available...

By: Magnus Rahl

Tags: EPiServer CMS 5 properties Edit Mode Relate+ EPiServer Community

Posted: 21 Apr 2009
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The accessible LinkButtton

The ASP.NET LinkButton webcontrol is great in many ways, but one clear shortcoming i accessibility. Because it doesn’t render a xhtml input control it can not perform http POST on it’s own, it uses javascript to do this. If, for accessibility...

By: Magnus Rahl

Tags: ASP.NET JavaScript accessibility wai

Posted: 20 Mar 2009
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Migrating PersonalizedData – the quick and dirty way

If the site you are migrating is using the PersonalizedData class to store non-standard values for the users, you will soon discover that the Migration Tool does not (yet?) migrate this data. You have to do it yourself, and here is a quick and dir...

By: Magnus Rahl

Tags: EPiServer CMS 5 EPiServer CMS 5 R2 EPiServer 4.6x Migration PersonalizedData EPiServerProfile

Posted: 18 Feb 2009
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Social bookmarking as Dynamic Content

Many of you have probably built sites with social bookmarking icons or similar (“Share on facebook” etc.). Just for fun I decided to create an easily extendable implementation for this, and to do it as Dynamic Content to enable editors to place...

By: Magnus Rahl

Posted: 06 Feb 2009
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Dynamic Content goes personal

It started out as a simple Dynamic Content element which displayed the name of the user viewing the page, to enable editors to add greetings like “Hello [user name], welcome to the page!”. I then realized there may be many other uses for that type...

By: Magnus Rahl

Tags: Dynamic Content

Posted: 29 Jan 2009
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Problems installing EPiServer 4.x with newer versions of EPiServer and .NET present

This is probably old news for many of you, but I decided to put two common problems with installing EPiServer 4.x in the same blog article. The first problem is caused by the .NET framework 3.0 or newer and the second by EPiServer CMS 5 R1 or newe...

By: Magnus Rahl

Tags: EPiServer 4.61 EPiServer CMS EPiServer 4.6x episerver 4.6 Installation Scheduler

Posted: 27 Jan 2009
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Windows Live Writer – updated instructions

Update The below steps are no longer needed since a bug in the EPiServer version used on world.episerver.com has been fixed, as mentioned in this blog post . You should now be fine following the instructions in the EPiServer World Blogging...

By: Magnus Rahl

Posted: 27 Jan 2009
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Magnus Rahl
EPiServer Stockholm
Oracle

Magnus Rahl (formerly Paulsson): Former EMVP and EPiServer and .NET solution architect/developer that has now joined EPiServer to pitch in with the EPiServer core development.

Blog entries posted during 2009

Automatic Sub Category Property Type

Paging with LINQ – performance

R2 SP2 Upgrade fails with case sensitive collation

Generic Property Value Selection Tree

The accessible LinkButtton

Migrating PersonalizedData – the quick and dirty way

Social bookmarking as Dynamic Content

Dynamic Content goes personal

Problems installing EPiServer 4.x with newer versions of EPiServer and .NET present

Windows Live Writer – updated instructions

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