Setting default language in EPiServer ?
I'm looking for a way to set the default language for visitors comming to a site built in EPiServer for the first time. Not just administrators/editors in the backend, people comming to the public site. ...
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Aside from Episerver.com What other websites do people who develop using EPiServer use as development resources!? Been using coderesort.com but I find that it lacks examples of how to do stuff. Many thanks, J ...
"Colorizing" images in .NET
Is there any simple way to programatically colorize images in .NET? Basically we have a black and white image and need to put a layer of say pink above it and reduce the opacity of that layer to make the picture colorized in pink. ...
Is EPiServer threadsafe?
I can't find any information about this on either www.episerver.com or world.episerver.com, anyone knows? ...
Exception when starting EPiServer website
We're developing an EPiServer-based website and trying to deploy our latest build onto a WinXP IIS6 box. When browsing to site, we're getting the following stack trace [ClassFactoryException: ClassFactory not initialized] EPiServer.BaseLibrary.ClassFactory.get_Instance() +123 EPiServer.BaseLibrary.Context.get_Repository() +14 ...
IIS 6 Compress static files when using Wildcard application mapping
I'm using IIS 6 with EPiserver CMS which requires all requests to go through aspnet_isapi.dll. I want to gzip all my static files (js, css mainly). Trying to setup compression in IIS didn't work. Is there a setting in EPiServer that will allow me to achieve this? Can .net framework compress files automatically? ...
TDD with Episerver
What is the best way to abstract the episerver infrastructure for easier testing? ...
EpiServer CMS 5 R2: Custom Page Provider refuses to load.
I've recently started work on a new project using EpiServer which I am totally new to. One of my tasks requires me to write a custom page provider. I have got the sample page provider working and loaded. I've also ensured that I have a Enterprise Developer licence as the functionality is only available with this licence. So I've done ...
EpiServer CMS 5 R2: Custom Page Providers - The right choice?
Hello, I'm using EpiServer CMS 5R2 on a new project. I've been tasked with creating a CustomPageProvider to link to an existing back end store which we don't have control of. However looking at the sample provider (XmlPageProvider) it appears that the provider is responsible for maintaining the meta information that EpiServer needs for ...
Does anyone have any EPiServer Exam Tips?
Myself and some colleagues have just been told that we are all taking the EPiServer CMS certification exam on Friday. Having done some research on the web it does sound like a challenging exam - I've heard that only one in six people pass it. There doesn't seem to be much in the way of learning material, beyond what is described on the ...
How can I disable the Publish button in EPiServer's content editor?
I have an EPiServer project which is using the sequential workflow to validate content changes. This works fine, however we have a slight issue where content reviewers are just clicking Publish when they are happy with an editor's work. What they should be doing is using the workflow task window and indicating their approval through that...
Disable Visual Studio Web Server Directory Browsing
I'm using Visual Studio's built in web server to test and EPiServer applicaiton. When I have the app running in IIS, if I hit the root of the virtual directory, EPiServer will take over and server the defaul page to me. Using the Visual Studion server (which I am doing for license reasons with the SDK), it always gives me the 'Director...
Problems with Request.QueryString. Reads cache instead of URL
I'm trying to retrieve the value of myID from my URL. I'm testing this using <%=Request.QueryString["hotelid"] %>. It only works the first time the page is loaded either in a new browser, or if my project has been rebuild. My URL string is typical: http://my/path/to/site/?hotelid=2. If I try <%=Request.QueryString %>, I'm also gettin...
EPiServer R2 SP2
I am attempting to install an EPiServer R2 SP2 site on IIS 6.0 and I received the classfactory not initialised error. I managed to overcome this by downgrading my web.config to one that is compliant with IIS 6.0 The site loads fine and works as it should all except for edit/admin mode and the default login screen which all seem to have ...
Group/Editor permission for language in EPiServer
I have an issue with a large globalized website with alot of languages in EPiServer. At the moment we have used different nodes for each language, with each spoken language for that country. With this, we have assigned access rights to the node-treew using Editors (e.g NL has EditorsNL). Several of the nodes has Spoken languages as wel...
Custom 404 with EPiServer CMS5 on IIS 6
I have been trying to set up a custom 404 page for several days now but still haven't succeeded. The target system is EPiServer CMS 5 running on Windows 2003. My development system is EPiServer CMS 5 running on Windows Vista. this means I can only debug on a different version of IIS. Anyway: The problem is that the custom 404 is displa...
Using EPiServer to publish a PDF document
We have an EPI Server site. We would like to publish the contents from a PDF document as part of a published page. The published page should have the right menu and the top menu of the site, but the contents should come from the PDF document. Is there a PDF viewer or another way to do this? Thanks Shiraz ...
Strange HttpException that's driving me nuts
Im trying to list all categories in a VPP-folder using a module from Meridium called FolderBrowserProperty. It works perfectly locally and on our company's remote test site, but on the live site we are getting the following error: Server Error in '/' Application. Unhandled Execution Error Stack trace: [HttpException: 0x80004005]<...
Detaching a Query in Linq to Sql
For my application I want to be able (if possible) to execute a LINQ to SQL query outside of it's context. The reason this would be nice for me is that I would store the IQueryable in objects in the cache. When I later need them they would be executed and the cached object would be updated with the items from the query. The reason I wa...