Thursday, 20 March 2008

The Next Adventure

Sadly, today is my last day at Intergen. I am embarking on my big OE and will be leaving New Zealand in just over a week. My adventures begin in South East Asia (Thailand & Vietnam) before I arrive in London at the end of April.

So this blog is going to be very quiet for a little while till I'm settled down again. If you want to keep up with my travels you can find my personal travel blog here: http://racheltravel.blogspot.com/

Once I have landed in London I will be looking for contract work, preferably in the EPiServer space. If you know of any positions available feel free to message me through my msn link on the side of this blog. Location is not an issue, I am happy to work anywhere in the UK.

I just want to also say a big thank you to everyone out there who has been reading my blog and who have supported me over the last few years.

Talk again soon
Rachel

Friday, 7 March 2008

Error during setup

Was involved in the recent setup of an EPiServer test VM and during installation of a sample site we were getting this error on the setup page when it loads the browser:

Exception: Unable to generate a temporary class (result=1). error CS2001: Source file 'C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\tc4s4ocu.0.cs' could not be found error CS2008: No inputs specified []


Determined the error was due to a permissions problem which caused the file not to be placed in the temp directory in the first place. We needed to ensure that the local asp.net account had read/write permissions to C:\Windows\temp

Monday, 3 March 2008

Menus & EPi5

In older versions of EPiServer it was difficult to create menus based on clean nested lists e.g.

<ul>
<li></li>
<li></li>
<ul class="selected">
<li></li>
<li class="selected"></li>
</ul>
<li></li>
<ul>

In the past I utilised code for a custom menu control I found on the developer forums (apologies, I can not find the link again so cannot reference it here).

However, now in EPi 5 the Page Tree control contains two new templates which makes creating these types of menus a breeze:

Check out <IndentTemplate> and <UnindentTemplate> within the PageTree control