I've found a bug with IE8 Beta 2 (in both IE7 and IE8 browser modes) where list boxes that, although disabled but containing selected items, do not show the selected items. Here is an example of what should be displayed I am selected Not selected I am selecting this as well! Not selected either I am selecting this too! I am selecting this again! For those of you who are not using IE8 Beta 2, here is what it appears like: I am selected Not selected I am selecting this as well! Not selected either I am selecting this too! I am selecting this again! I have logge... [More]

I've just managed to get the .NET 3.5 style of WCF Web Programming Model services to work inside an EPiServer 5 R2 site on IIS 7 and Windows 2008.  I had a few difficulties finding out how to integrate the new model into IIS/ASP.NET and then further problems getting it working in EPiServer.  Here, I outline the solution. Context I'm currently designing a site that will be using the Akamai Edge Suite of technologies (www.akamai.com) and so I desire that all client access is through the caching layer.  Additionally, I'm motivated towards a REST model for web services to support a greater degre... [More]

One of IE8's new features is a that when closing a window or tab, it can remember the session ID and therefore maintain the session with a website. This is an advantage if you accidentally close a window or tab, but there is a problem. For example, if you have several logins for a site, each login giving totally separate functionality of the site (e.g customer and administrator), then you may close your browser and login as someone else. What you may find is that when you open a new window, you are already logged in as the other person. Why does this happen? IE8 seems to use the first window... [More]

The 3 types of connections Silverlight can make are: Connections to web services and WCF services HTTP requests (via HttpWebRequest and WebClient) Raw data transfers When building one of your early applications, you may choose to try out one of these classes to get back a really simple piece of HTML, purely to test the connection. For example: protected void Button_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { WebClient wc = new WebClient("http://www.google.com"); wc.DownloadStringAsyncCompleted += new EventHandler<DownloadStringEventArgs>(wc_DownloadStringComplet... [More]

EPiServer Norway are associated with an EPiServer community project called EPiCode which had its annual awards on the 12th of November as part of the Christmas Tech Forum. I was really pleased to see the Module of the Year award went to my pals over at NetworkedPlanet for their EasySearch module. Unlike some of the other modules on EPiCode, it isn't free to use commercially - but it is free to download and try out and fills a nice gap in the EPiServer search space. A bunch of other 'active contributors' were lucky enough to get an iPod Shuffle in the awards - including me for contributing Clo... [More]

I put my VPC's on my external hard disk and run them off there, as the hard drive can run independently of Windows. I've noticed over the past few months, that randomly, my external USB 2.0 hard drive (Freecom 400GB) disconnects for no reason and I get a balloon in the system tray with the title "Delayed Write Problem" , then something to do with G:\$MFT or G:\$Bitmap. Yesterday, I was defragmenting my external hard disk and noticed it kept happening. I turned it off and on again, started defragmenting and the same problem happened. I thought it might be the writing caching, which helps im... [More]

Introduction Interakting use both Open Source and proprietary products to deliver solutions for many companies. We always try to select the best tool for the job, and when it comes to Content Management it is no different. We have a range of tools we consider using including various Open Source tools (e.g. Nuxeo, DotNetNuke) and also our proprietary offerings (EPiServer, ADXSTUDIO). In the context of many projects it would certainly be possible to deliver a ‘successful’ project in either a proprietary or an Open Source solution. However, when we consider budgetary, functionality, deadline, su... [More]