Tips and Tricks

Azure Storage Performance Showdown (Post 2)

In this second post of my performance series looking at Azure storage we're going to take a good look at Read speeds for the various storage types.

.NET Development Azure Tips and Tricks

September 24 2018

Content Providers and Flat Content

A classic challenge in many CMS - and also in Episerver - has always been what do you do with large amounts of non-hierarchical/flat content? There has been many workarounds along the way and I was just on my way to make yet another when I discovered a well hidden secret deep in the belly of Episervers UI: The Asset widget (that holds blocks and media items) does in fact have infinite scrolling - which in turn can support incredibly large flat structures!

Tips and Tricks Integrations Optimizely (Episerver)CMS

September 22 2018

Azure Storage Performance Showdown (Post 1)

Almost every project has some data you want to persist, then read, search through, update and eventually delete. With Azure there are loads of great possibilities - for example Blob Storage, Table Storage, CosmosDb, SQL Azure. I've decided to do some simple and fairly naive tests to compare these for some typical usage scenarios and see how they perform.

Tips and Tricks .NET Development Azure

September 21 2018

Understanding Episerver CMS - How are images rendered

When using reusable content such as images, the actual HTML rendering of them can happen multiple places. But when is what used? And how can you customize it?

CMS Tips and Tricks Optimizely (Episerver)

September 19 2018

VS2017 Debugger Timeout

A really annoying problem has been bothering me for a while with VS2017. When debugging most web apps, I often encounter time-outs. For some reason it happens nearly every time I do it with Episerver projects. Here is the solution.