Magnus Paulsson´s Blog Posts

Listing number of pages by page type

A colleague who is new to EPiServer asked if there is a way to see how many instances of a page type there are. Since I didn’t know of one I created this simple plugin. It could have been made simpler, without the delayed loading using the...

Load page elements asynchronously using UpdatePanel and Timer

If you want to load your pages asynchronously element by element facebook-style to speed up the first display of the page your first choice would probably not be UpdatePanel but rather AJAX using jQuery or a similar framework. Using updatepanels i...

Simple access to custom queries in the EPiServer CMS database

If you ever find yourself adding custom tables to the EPiServer database, or even just wanting to perform custom queries or running stored procedures on the standard tables, here’s one way of making your life a bit easier. Create your data access...

Redirecting container page type

I often find it is necessary to use pages just to structure other pages in a site. Many of you have probably at one time or another had a page in your web site root called [Footer menu] or something similar. Editors do this too, to group or tuck...

Non-FURLs stop working after installing CMS 5 R2 SP2

After upgrading a site to EPiServer CMS 5 R2 SP2, incoming links on non-FURL format (i.e. http://host/template.aspx?id=xyz ) stopped working. All such requests end up displaying the same garbled page, as if the start page template / IIS default...