Visual Studio 2010 I don’t think Visual Studio needs an introduction. VS 2010 brought us .NET 4.0 that contains a lot of new goodies! ReSharper ReSharper is the absolut must have for Visual Studio. It provides very improved navigation and search, refactoring, code generation, code cleanup and unit testing. I have gotten so used to [...]
For the last week the news that Nokia has chosen Windows Phone 7 as their main operating system for all their new smart phones has been all over the news. A lot of people are very upset and say that Nokia should have gone with Android instead, or that they should have invested more in [...]
30 Nov, 2010
Posted by: Peter In: .NET|EPiServer|Powershell|Web
Two weeks ago I went to the EPiServer Meetup where Bartek Tatkowski talked about EPiServer and CI. This got me inspired to write about how we do CI and deployment in my current project. The site we are building is an EPiServer 6 CMS Enterprise site based on .NET 4.0 and ASP.NET MVC 2.0 (I [...]
Lately I have been programing quite a lot of PowerShell. The release of PowerShell 1.0 in 2006 and more recently version 2.0, is probably one of the best things that has happened to development on the Windows/.NET platform for a long time (even though it takes some time to get used to the “wackiness” of [...]
Entity Framework 4 itself is interesting but what really got me hooked was the CTP 4 preview, and what Microsoft call “Code First”. Code First allows us to describe our model using regular POCO classes, instead of designing our model using either the EF editor or creating in directly in the database.
19 Apr, 2010
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, to [...]
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)) { [...]
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, [...]