Questions tagged [episerver]

Episerver is a web content management system and e-commerce platform based on ASP.NET.

Episerver is an ASP.NET-based CMS (Content Management System) and e-commerce platform.

Information about Episerver development is best found at: http://world.episerver.com

General company information about Episerver is found at: http://www.episerver.com

Up until version 6 Episerver was strictly based on web forms. Since Episerver 7 developers have the option of choosing to either build websites using ASP.NET WebForms or ASP.NET MVC.

Since version 7.5 Episerver do continuous releases, with updates published weekly through the Episerver NuGet feed.

Major version number is incremented when updates include breaking changes. Episerver is currently at major version 11.

Although "Episerver" often refers to the CMS, Episerver has several products such as:

  • Episerver Commerce (e-commerce framework)
  • Episerver Find (cloud-based search engine)
  • Episerver Relate (for building large-scale communities)
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Correct way of using log4net (logger naming)

There are two ways of configuring and using log4net. First one is when I can configure my own appender and associated logger:
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Choosing a CMS: EPiServer vs Orchard vs SiteCore vs Umbraco

Increasingly, I have noticed the number of Content Management Systems in use. I have some familiarity with SiteCore. I have read some literature on Umbraco. I only just got wind of Orchard the other day. I have only heard positive feedback about…
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EPiServer Development

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
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Clientside validation using Xforms - MVC application

I am trying to perform a client side form validation using an episerver xform the compiled html looks like this: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/ojGGJw Any guidance on how to achieve that? I am thinking about using .validate library but I will have an…
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Episerver - Why BlockData doesn't implement IContent

Does anybody knows why BlockData class doesn't directly implement IContent? I know that during BlockData is being retrieve from database, proxy created by Castle implements IContent. If StackOverflow isn't suitable place for this kind of a…
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EpiServer how to get the Link URL of a specific page?

I need to bind the LinkURL of the Blog Page with a link button on the Start Page. What I did was actually found that Page ID and get a Page Reference using it. PageReference BlogPageReference = new PageReference(21); PageData BlogPage =…
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How to manually rebuild the search index (Index, Main, Ref folders) in EPiServer 7

I have seen some custom made gadget for the dashboard and a plugin in admin-mode in EPiServer 6 R2 that will let you rebuild the search index. What options are there in EPiServer 7? Are there any official plugin-in/gadgets or some other built-in…
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Rendering of blocks in Episerver MVC

I have a question I have been struggling a bit with the last days. I'm trying to understand how the rendering of blocks works in Episerver 7 when working with MVC. My current setup that actually works is as follows: I have created a Block Type…
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"Invalid token ',' in class, struct, or interface" after checkout

I am having problems compiling an EPiServer Web Application after checking it out of Subversion. I get this error Compiler Error Message: CS1519: Invalid token ',' in class, struct, or interface member declaration Source Error: Line 116: } Line…
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IContentRepository vs IContentLoader in EPiServer

In EPiServer 7, I have come across 2 different interfaces to get a hold of the EPiServer repository - IContentRepository and IContentLoader. Example: var repo =…
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TDD with Episerver

What is the best way to abstract the episerver infrastructure for easier testing?
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What is the best way to index property DDS EPiServer

What is the best way to add indexes on existing objects mapped to DDS? Several hundred thousand objects already stored in the database. Is it as easy as just adding [EPiServerDataIndex] atttribute to my existing classes, recompile and redeploy the…
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EpiServer - Add block to a content area programmatically

I have a content area which will have some blocks, some attributes of these blocks must be initialized with data from a SQL query, so in the controller I have something like this: foreach (ObjectType item in MyList) { BlockData currentObject =…
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Redirect to another any episerver page from MVC controller?

How to redirect to any page (eg Home) from any MVC controller in Episerver? eg after login - redirect to the start page.
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How to retrieve a list of all enabled languages for the EPi Server website programmatically?

I simply want to get a list of all enabled languages for the EPi Server website (enabled in the "Manage Website Languages" panel in Admin mode) and preferably also be able to retrieve the path to the flag icon and of course the culture name/ID. I'm…
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