Fredrik Haglund´s Blog Posts

EPiServer CMS with Facebook Open Graph

I just implemented support for the Open Graph protocol on an EPiServer CMS site to improve Facebook Share and Facebook Like. First thing noticed is that it looks that Facebook have problem with national characters like ÅÄÖ and other Unicode...

How to fix alphabetic sorting of pages in EPiServer

I recently got the question how to fix the incorrect alphabetic sorting of child pages in EPiServer. It is usually Scandinavian users complaining that Å, Ä and Ö are sorted together with A and O instead of being at the end of the list. Sort order:...

EPiServer CMS 6: SocketException with VPN

If you use new EPiServer CMS 6 and have a VPN tunnel open you may get an exception when starting your EPiServer site. SocketException (0x2747): An operation on a socket could not be performed because the system lacked sufficient buffer space or...

TechDays: Dino Esposito’s ASP.NET 4.0 highlights

In short, ASP.NET 4.0, gives you more control. CSS friendly HTML from Server Controls by default. EnableViewState does not work as you expect in ASP.NET 2.0. With the new ViewStateMode property with values: Inherit, Enable and Disable you get what...

Configuration Management and EPiServer CMS 6

This blog post is based on the experience of upgrading one EPiServer CMS 5 project and creating a new one from scratch based on a release candidate of EPiServer CMS 6 and things may change before the release. New configuration files Web.config...