A little gotcha with the Multiplexing Membership Provider

The MultiplexingMembershipProvider will call GetUser before it calls ValidateUser when authenticating a user. If you set the default provider to be your own provider, ValidateUser will be called first. So, a little different behaviour there, no...

Taking Control of Property Rendering

I answered a question in the developer forum today, about the span tags that the EPiServer:Property control renders when you pass it the name of a PropertyString property. The thing is; the Property control itself supports setting a CSS class,...

Opening a new EPiServer CMS 5 SP1 project in VS 2008

When you install a new EPiServer CMS 5 project using the EPiServer CMS Manager, the . csproj file shipped is for Visual Studio 2005 SP1. Opening the project in Visual Studio 2008 will start the project upgrade wizard, which will fail if you have...

EPiServer CMS 5 SP1 has shipped

You can grab it on the Knowledge Center. Make sure you use the new EPiServer CMS Manager. One of the new things in the SP1 release is the Content Channel Service, which can be used to feed and synchronize your EPiServer content from external...

Compare and keep language files in sync

In my opinion, one of the coolest features of EPiServer is the way language resources are handled. The ease of use and flexibility of xml files in the /lang directory is very powerful. At startup, your EPiServer site will load all the . xml files...

Multiplexing Provider and Security

The Multiplexing providers in EPiServer CMS 5 allows several role and membership providers to be chained together, thus attempting to authenticate and authorize users against different providers. This is very powerful, allowing users from...