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Recently I started a new assignment at a customer where we are going to build their new public web site and their intranet, both of them based on EPiServer CMS 6. The person leading the project is very found of ASP.NET MVC, so my first task was to experiment with EPiServer and ASP.NET MVC, [...]

Recently I got a request from a customer to perform some search engine optimizing for an old EPiServer site we are maintaining. One of the optimizations was to fix the paging on their product page. The products are fetched from an external data source and are not stored as pages in EPiServer, thus normal EPiServer [...]

About a month ago I finished reading the book ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Test Driven Development by Emad Ibrahim. The book weighs in only at about 300 pages, making it easily something you can read in a couple of nights. The book is written in tutorial fashion and is is probably best read with a [...]

While reading the EPiServer 5 SDK documentation, i found this:
Rename a Folder
There is no Rename method on the EPiServer.Web.Hosting.UnifiedDirectory class. To rename a folder you need to call the MoveTo method as follows:

protected void RenameFolder(string path, string oldName, string name)

{

    if (IsFolder(path))

    {

        UnifiedDirectory directory =

        [...]

I recently needed to setup a new ASP.NET development environment and deiced to give Microsofts Web Platform Installer 2.0 a chance. I had actually never heard about this product before, but what it does is installing .NET, the needed development libraries, and the express versions of Visual Studio and SQL Server. It required three reboots, [...]

I was having a chat the other day with Danish Peter (yes, another one) about URL rewrites in ASP.NET. In a previous post I wrote about how to use friendly URLs in the Zend framework, in this post, which is based on our discussion, I will discuss how to do this in ASP.NET.
Friendly URLs are [...]

You would think that ASP.NET would have build in support for something so simple as clearing all input fields on a page, but no. However, this easy to add. Add the following to your Page_Load (btnClear should be the name of your clear button):

btnClear.Attributes.Add(“onClick”, “document.forms[0].reset();return false;”);

The workaround I tested a few weeks ago did not really solve my problem – actually it made it worse. The autorestart caused mono to hang and not restart at all, so my site stopped responding every 6th hour. I quickly had to disable this. Still I had the memory consumption problems. From various sources [...]

Lately I have been experiencing that the mod-mono-server2 process running on the server hosting the video upload web-service (I blogged about this in my last post) has been consuming a lot of memory. Once, it even reached the point where all memory (1.5GB) of the server was consumed and the Linux OOM-killer killed the mod-mono-server2 [...]

A few months ago my employer asked me if it would be possible to create a web service for encoding videos. I had been playing around with Amazon’s web services for a while, and it seemed like the perfect foundation for building this.
I decided to build the backend in Python and use ffmpeg for encoding [...]