Month: April 2015
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Embedding a Youtube Video on EPiServer
Several pages in our website require embedded Youtube videos. So I created a Youtube block that accepts the following Content properties: Title Description Embed link While it’s Settings properties are: Width Height Allow Full Screen Auto Play Here’s my code for the model: public class YoutubeBlock : BlockData { [Display( Name = “Title”, GroupName =…
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How to Create an RSS Feed in EPiServer (ASP.NET MVC)
Thanks to Ted and a guy from CodeInside for your blogs which helped come up with this solution. Problem: Create an RSS feed for ASP.NET MVC Website with EPiServer Solution: We need three things 1. RssResult class 2. RssPage page type 3. RssPageController which creates the xml rss feed So let’s begin with the RssResult…
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EPiServer 7.x vs EPiServer 8
I was tasked to find out whether our current active license for CMS 7 will still work with EPiServer 8. So I did some research and thought of sharing it here as well. Summary Version: Good news – Our 7.x license will continue to work for EPiServer 8.0 Current EPiServer version available in NuGet is…
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Int64 / Long / Bigint Property is not supported in EPiServer 8
Yes, you read it right. You can’t have a model property of type Int64 / long. I came across an issue where in I have a model that requires to store an Id (from the database) as one of it’s properties. It so happens that most tables we have at work go by an Id…