How does the QA phase work with EpiServer marketplace modules?

On 5 December, 2019 By Francisco QuintanillaIn EpiserverLeave a comment

This post is taken from https://www.verndale.com/insights/how-does-the-qa-phase-work-with-episerver-marketplace-modules In any software project, quality assurance is very important and of course, applications that live in the EpiServer marketplace are no exception. This not only reflects the quality of the product but also helps the customer trust in who developed it. For EPiServer , add-ons quality assurance does not …

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EPiServer Ascend, takeaways from an engineer

On 3 December, 20193 December, 2019 By Francisco QuintanillaIn Episerver2 Comments

EPiServer Ascend 2019 took place in Miami city in an exclusive sector that helped to enhance this important event. More than 700 people gathered to participate in different educational sessions, free certification, and labs. There were sessions for developers where they showed EPiServer features that are very rarely used, such as the creation of add-ons …

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Live Log Viewer

On 5 July, 20195 July, 2019 By Francisco QuintanillaIn Episerver4 Comments

If you want to know what's happening in your web site to be prepared against any potential bug, then you need to look into your logs. This module allows you to monitor in real time the activity of your logs within EPiServer. Live Log Viewer Installation The module is available for download and installation as …

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Publishing Descendant Pages

On 10 May, 201913 May, 2019 By Francisco QuintanillaIn Episerver2 Comments

Batch publish is very useful when you do big updates. It is almost impossible to handle one hundred or more of documents one by one. This has been one of the more frequently requested ones and finally it is here. The process scans for all possible changes in the related descendant pages and publish them. …

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Impersonate Users

On 1 April, 201924 June, 2019 By Francisco QuintanillaIn Episerver3 Comments

If you are working as a supporting partner or a developer for an EPiServer website that has gated content and permissions for logged in users, you may need to provide access to various of them and check that everything is working properly. In most of cases, users used to say "This page is not accessible", …

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Clear caches individually

On 20 March, 201922 March, 2019 By Francisco QuintanillaIn Episerver2 Comments

Recently I was asked for an easy way to manually delete a cache entry key, so I decided to build a simple module that could be helpful for both developers and administrators who understand how cache is used; for instance, to invalidate Content Output Cache in EPiServer. This tool have the following: List all cache …

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Content Output Caching – Part 3

On 6 March, 20197 March, 2019 By Francisco QuintanillaIn EpiserverLeave a comment

It is possible to easily cache the rendering of a web page using a custom condition by setting a custom string, which ASP.NET will vary the output by. To test it, you need to create a class that inherits from MvcOutputCacheAttribute. Take a look at the following example: public class VaryByBrowser : Verndale.OutputCache.Attributes.MvcOutputCacheAttribute { protected …

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Content Output Caching – Part 2

On 5 March, 201922 March, 2019 By Francisco QuintanillaIn Episerver6 Comments

In the previous post you learned about how to install the output caching module in a EPiServer project. Now it is time to see it in action. First, I created a MVC application that displays a list of pages, so by default, each time the user invokes the controller action to see records, the application …

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Content Output Caching – Part 1

On 28 February, 201922 March, 2019 By Francisco QuintanillaIn Episerver1 Comment

Using Output Caching helps to improve the performance of an ASP.NET MVC Application. It caches the content returned by an action method so that the same content does not need to be generated each time the same action method is invoked in the controller. If a page takes a lot of server-side resources to create, …

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