crli
Nov 21, 2009
  7914
(2 votes)

Exploring the data lair

Arm yourself with the DDS Explorer and venture into the dark bowels of your EPiServer CMS 6 site.

Find what stores there are.

Learn the kinds and sizes of shelves in the store

Take a peek at what lies in store for you.

And change it!

Download DDS Explorer (Take care not to do anything nasty with this)

In summary

The dynamic data store is a great new feature. The setup cost is almost zero and using it is so easy you almost forget you're using a database. The (almost) fixed schema operation also promises a nice deployment scenario.

Nov 21, 2009

Comments

Sep 21, 2010 10:32 AM

Awesome!!
Me like bigtime!!

Sep 21, 2010 10:32 AM

Me too like bigtime!

Bye, MUAHAHA!
/ Joel Abrahamsson

Sep 21, 2010 10:32 AM

Awesome gadget. I also like it bigtime!
/ Jacob Khan

Sep 21, 2010 10:32 AM

I like it the biggest time!
/ Paul Smith

Sep 21, 2010 10:32 AM

Look out for a much improved meta API in the next version:

var stores = StoreDefinition.GetAll();

foreach (var store in stores)
{
foreach (var inlineMapping = store.InlineMappings)
{
}

.. etc
}


/ Paul Smith

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