Sometimes you want to able to save data that is not a page or a content block. Examples could be data like comments created by visitors or orders in your webshop. An easy way to save such data is using EPiServers build-in Dynamic Data Store.
Tag Archives: cms
About Blobs and Accessing Media by code in EPiServer 7.5
In this post I take a look at what blob storage exactly is, why it could be interesting and how it works in EPiServer. By default EPiServer uses blob storage to store all its content. Further I take a look at how to access stored media assets from code and show them in a view and how to save an uploaded image as a blob in the Media panel.
Adding bootstrap to your EPiServer MVC project
In this tutorial we will add Twitter Bootstrap to our EPiServer project and we will create some base classes and our first ViewModel. Further I will explain the purpose of these base classes and the need for a ViewModel. Most of this is standard ASP.NET MVC so if you are already familiar with that you can probably skip this post.
Some helpfull EPiServer 7.5 code snippets
Since a couple of weeks when I started with EPiServer I experimented a lot. Here is a quick summary of some code fragments that I found on the internet that can be very usefull in some cases. I am not going into detail about these code fragments because honestly I dont understand all of it (yet).
Starting your first EPiServer 7.5 MVC project
Welcome to my first blog where I will start explaining how to create a simple website that uses EPiServer 7.5 as CMS. In the next tutorials I will extend the functionality of the website and I will dive deeper in more advance topics related to EPiServer. I assume that you have basic knowledge about the CMS itself. In other words that you know how to work with the CMS itself.