Henrik Fransas
Apr 30, 2015
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Useful links when developing EPiServer sites

When starting to develop with EPiServer or when you have done it a very long time you will have a great use with blog posts or articles on the web.

In this blog post I will try to collect a list of useful links and will update it when I find new ones.

Please give feedback if you have a link that you think is great and should be on the list!

Building large scale sites
http://joelabrahamsson.com/building-large-scale-episerver-sites/

GitFlow
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflows/gitflow-workflow

S.O.L.I.D.
A great session (In swedish) by Chris Klug on SOLID
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVp-JSYX9Q8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R97I2MpCKFU

More info about SOLID
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID

ContentArea
A great first post by Valdis about how Content Area works under the hood
http://tech-fellow.net/2015/04/26/content-area-under-the-hood-part-1/

License
https://license.episerver.com/

Custom Criteria for visitor groups
A blog post on how to create your own criteria
http://world.episerver.com/blogs/Henrik-Fransas/Dates/2015/2/building-custom-criteria-for-visitor-groups-in-episerver-7.5/

Developer guides
These guides are always great to read
http://world.episerver.com/documentation/cms/

EPiServer MeetUp
A community group where we EPiServer developers meets and learn from each other
http://www.meetup.com/EPiServer-Stockholm/
http://www.meetup.com/EPiServer-Oslo/
http://www.meetup.com/EPiServer-London/
http://www.meetup.com/EPiServer-utvecklare-Oresund/
http://www.meetup.com/EPiServer-Developers-in-The-Netherlands/
http://www.meetup.com/Episerver-Chicago/
http://www.meetup.com/Sydney-EPiServer-Users-Group/
http://www.meetup.com/EPiServer-developers-in-New-York/
http://www.meetup.com/EPiServer-CXM-User-Group-Chicago/https://www.meetup.com/Episerver-Developers-in-Serbia/

Deploy to Azure
One article and one blogpost that helps a lot when you want to deploy to Azure
http://world.episerver.com/documentation/Items/Developers-Guide/EPiServer-CMS/75/Deployment/Deployment-scenarios/Deploying-to-Azure-websites/
http://world.episerver.com/blogs/Henrik-Fransas/Dates/2014/8/Converting-wwwactivesolutionse-to-Azure-Website/

Dojo
David has created a great blog post with a lot of usefull links about Dojo
http://www.david-tec.com/2014/08/EPiServer-Dojo-Useful-links/

Validation Attributes
What many might not know is that it is simple to for example add a limit on a int property. David has written a great post on how to do it
http://www.david-tec.com/2012/06/EPiServer-7-Preview---Using-validation-attributes/

Apr 30, 2015

Comments

Johan Book
Johan Book May 1, 2015 05:32 PM

Funny how a list of links cannot be clickable... :-/

Henrik Fransas
Henrik Fransas May 2, 2015 09:16 AM

Johan. Thanks a lot, I did not test that, they are usually being made into links when pasting in them as a url.

will fix it right away :-)

Henrik Fransas
Henrik Fransas May 2, 2015 09:23 AM

So, now it is fixed :)

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