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I've been working on CMS projects for over a decade and over that time I've worked with some bad developers, some good developers and a handful of rockstars.  When I first started my career, I thought that being a rockstar developer was just some mag[...]

A semi-common Episerver requirement is to have a staging/live configuration. In this type of environment three servers exist, one server behind a firewall with the Episerver editor enabled and two loads balanced web facing boxes that have Episerver d[...]

In today's tutorial, I'm going to walk you through how you set-up deploying to DXC via Octopus.  Episerver also has a pretty good guide, available here, but I still struggled a little bit when setting it up.   Setting Up You DXC Account The first t[...]

On rare occasions when you work with Episerver, you'll encounter some strange requirement or a scenario where you'll need to add in some custom filtering or HTML manipulation on the output response of a page. One way of doing this is by creating a cu[...]

For those of you who are using DXC you will probably quickly figure out that you have limited options when it comes to deploying to the integration environment database yourself.  When you get access to the integration environment SQL you won't have [...]

If you are working in a big team, Stylecop is a great tool to ensure your team writes code in a consistent way (to learn more about Stylecop read this).   I recommend that anyone reading this post who isn't using Stylecop now should install it ASAP. [...]

If you look at the Episerver variant, you will see a MarketFilter property, however, if you look within the Properties collection on the object you'll also see a property associated with the variant called _ExcludedCatalogEntryMarkets.  In today's po[...]

This has been pissing me off a lot recently.  It seems to happen after I've rebased and then tried to recompile my solution at random time.  Visual Studio complains that it can't compile the solution because the 'roslyn' folder within the 'bin' folde[...]

Very quick post today.  If you ever encounter this issue when you try and view it, like so: When you look at your console, you see the Javascript error 'Config is not loaded yet. Access model cannot be used.' It's very likely that your Episerver li[...]

When you're deploying Episerver it is very likely that you'll also need to deploy a license file with the files.  The standard Iaas (infrastructure as a service)/ on-prem license is pretty simple.  Make sure that the license file is included with you[...]