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Added Tuesday 20 July 2010 10:03

Retrieving an EPiServer 6 global setting value

You added some property settings to your custom property and created a couple of global settings for the editor to choose from. Then you find out you want to get hold of the setting values in code. Here's how you fetch them.

Added Tuesday 22 June 2010 00:10

Replacing the TinyMCE table plugin in EPiServer 6

I got the task to replace the TinyMCE table plugin with a stripped down version of the original optimized by a colleague.

Added Wednesday 16 June 2010 08:00

Using Dynamic Data Store related to an EPiServer 6 page

We decided to build a poll function using a Question page type and an Option page type to put below. For each option we thought the new Dynamic Data Store related to an EPiServer page - the Page Object Manager - would be a neat thing to use as storage for the votes.

Added Thursday 20 May 2010 16:15

Alter default InitOptions for TinyMCE in EPiServer 6

The default config options set by CreateDefaultInitOptions() aren't really what you need to help editors create correctly marked up content. Luckily the guys at EPiServer have a way to tweak 'em.

Added Thursday 8 April 2010 10:25

Brilliant graphic design in HP printer setup

Installed three HP printer drivers and got three different directories in Progam Files (HP, Hewlett_Packard and Hewlett-Packard). This was not the only ugly thing about it though.

Added Friday 2 April 2010 16:47

Install and run Google Chrome on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Previously this has appeared to be a more advanced operation but now it's really easy.

Added Thursday 4 February 2010 15:09

Trouble installing EPiServer Mail

When installing EPiServer Mail 4.4 SP1 my Deployment Center gave the error message "Invalid character in the given encoding", stopped and rolled back.

Added Friday 29 January 2010 12:34

Vary EPiServer cache by all querystring parameters

I had a EPiServer CMS 5 R2 project where there was a lot of templates lifted in from an older solution. It was very querystring intensive so I needed to get away from specifying each querystring-parameter in the httpCacheVaryByParams setting and still enjoy public caching.

Added Wednesday 23 December 2009 12:37

Using XmlTextWriter to output RSS with MVC

I like to use the XmlTextWriter class to generate RSS with complete control. Here's what I ended up with to get it working from a Controller in a ASP.NET MVC 1.0 project.

Added Monday 14 December 2009 16:41

How to create a role task by code in EPiServer

After failing duplicating the ParallelApproval Workflow I looked into creating a task by code in the project instead. Didn't find much documentation online so here's my initial Proof of Concept to fill the gap.

Added Sunday 19 July 2009 21:37

Firefox 3.5.1 on Ubuntu 9.04

Seems like Ubuntu 9.04 won't upgrade you to Firefox 3.5 through the Update Manager so if you want the latest this is one way that worked for me.

Added Thursday 9 July 2009 22:49

Error code 8004402f installing Vista Service Pack 2

I was unable to install Vista Service Pack 2 but after a number of tries finally found what the problem was.

Added Wednesday 8 July 2009 23:59

SubSonic 3 is out

A new generation of SubSonic based fully on Dotnet 3.5 was just released.

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