.NET Development

Optimizely Search & Navigation - Get autocomplete suggestions in right language

When you are using Optimizely Search & Navigation (Find) to help you generate autocomplete suggestions server side in a multi-language scenario it can be tricky (and poorly documented) to figure out how to get the suggestions in the correct language.

.NET Development Optimizely (Episerver)Tips and Tricks C#

juni 5 2023

Using System.Text.Json to do polymorphic Json conversion in .NET 6

When using System.Text.Json to serialize complex objects you sometimes need to go a bit beyond how the default serialization works. Here are a few helpful converters - for example for doing polymorphic conversion.

.NET Development C#

marts 30 2023

New Open Source Package: CodeArt.MatomoTracking

As Google Analytics have gotten harder and harder to use due to GDPR, legal and privacy concerns I have turned more and more to Matomo. I recently completed v.1 of a new open source tracking integration.

Behavior Analytics Vision Demos & Prototypes Integrations CMS .NET Development

januar 30 2023

When best practice isn't the best - Dependency Injection and Optimizely CMS

Some people live and breath 'best practice' development. I am not one of them. Risk is, in-experienced developers (or sometimes experienced) might use them just cause they are 'best practice' and not think more about it. Even when it turns out they are not. Here is little example...

Life as a Coder Optimizely (Episerver)CMS .NET Development

januar 29 2023

Running Optimizely CMS 12 (Episerver) on a Raspberry Pi

.NET Core is cross platform. But can you really run Optimizely CMS 12 and everything needed on a tiny ARM based Raspberry PI? Yes you can, and it's not that hard.

Life as a Coder Optimizely (Episerver)CMS .NET Development

december 18 2022

Optimizely Developer Meetup Copenhagen - June

Calling all Optimizely (Episerver) Developers in Copenhagen and surrounding area. It's once again time for a real-life meetup!

.NET Development CMS Optimizely (Episerver)Vision Demos & Prototypes Tech Talk

juni 2 2022

Optimizely CMS: List content recursively on a page - and list the visitor groups used

Quite often a lot of the content on pages in Optimizely Content cloud (aka Episerver CMS) is structured in blocks placed in content areas. And often even blocks in blocks. Sometimes it's needed to quickly get a list of all the content items on a page - and sometimes you might also be interested in which visitor groups are used. Here is a couple of extension methods to help you with that.

Optimizely (Episerver)C#.NET Development Tips and Tricks

juni 1 2022

Listing all endpoints in Optimizely CMS 12 / .NET 5

Routing has significantly changed in .NET 5 - and that affects many parts of Optimizely (Episerver) CMS 12. For example we have to get used to endpoints a middleware. As I am working on upgrading a few different add-ons I found it could be useful to see which routes are registered out of the box.

.NET Development Addon Development Optimizely (Episerver)

november 24 2021

Anti-Pattern: Don't modify Optimizely CMS (Episerver) content objects in the Controller

Using your content object (CurrentPage / CurrentBlock) as a makeshift viewmodel where you change settings or extend it with user data in the controller before passing it to the view, is unfortunately (and to my surprise) a pretty wide-spread practice among developers implementing Optimizely (Episerver) web sites. But it really needs to stop.

C#Tips and Tricks CMS .NET Development Optimizely (Episerver)

oktober 28 2021

Optimizely (Episerver): Split folder structure for blocks and media

Since version 7 or 8 of Episerver (now Optimizely CMS), the shared Blocks and Media have been sharing the same folder structure. Some people see a benefit with the shared structure, and some absolutely hate it. Personally, I have gotten used to it - but I was recently asked if it's possible to split it up. Here's the hack I came up with.

Tips and Tricks Optimizely (Episerver)CMS .NET Development

oktober 6 2021