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A little while ago my collegue Thomas threw a tantrum over EPiServer CMS R2 SP1. When he made changes to files they weren’t reflected on his site so he had to recompile over and over again. I had the same “problem” on my first CMS R2 SP1 site and help him solve it. Apparently a [...]

Per Bjurström wrote about this fix on his EPiServer blog a little while ago. Microsoft has a hotfix to improve startup after you compile your ASP.NET project.
FIX: You experience very slow performance on an initial request to an ASP.NET Web site after you change the App_Code folder, the bin folder, or the Global.asax file
Link to [...]

This is the first part in a planned series of explaining techniques and examples of how you can create more advanced EPiServer properties by utilizing Ajax.

In this first part we’re going “old skool” by implementing Ajax callbacks using ICallbackEventHandler (msdn). ICallbackEventHandler first showed up in .NET Framework 2.0 and when EPiServer 4 introduced .NET 2.0 [...]

Embedding javascript files into the dll is a good technique I use to make deployment of components easier. When creating properties or other controls that require javascript to work it’s much easier to write the code in a javscript file than to write it inline in the code as a string and then render the [...]

I’m involved with all of our major clients at Avantime and pretty much all of them are now starting to mention that they would like to include social networking in their intranets etc. Everyone is of course referring to Facebook and wants “their own Facebook”. There are few products available for social networking and even [...]

I was discussing a new project with one of the newer members of the Avantime team, Simon Sundén (Iconvert). Simon is just like most people at the office: a huge nerd. In fact, I would argue that Avantime has the highest nerd per employee ratio in Sweden. The difference between Simon and me is the subject [...]

A friend at work gave the the ipcc-settings file needed to activate MMS and tethering for Telenor in Sweden. Download the settings, unzip and use iTunes to install it. Installation in iTunes is just like how you install iPhone OS 3.0, using the key combo on update button to manually select the file.
For MMS to [...]

Signing of XML documents make up the foundation for SAML security by providing proof that a message hasn’t been tampered with by a third party. If you’ve ever worked with certificates and signing XML in .NET 2+ you know that it’s not a big deal. The X509Certificate2 class make loading public and private keys from [...]