Update

I have to apologise as this blog has been rather quiet for awhile. As most of you that read this blog know (since I met with you in Sweden last week!) I have accepted a position with EPiServer UK. It's a great opportunity for me and I have already learnt so much in the month I have been there, including working with my first implementation of x3.

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the EPiServer partner summit in Stockholm. It was a great 4 days with some interesting sessions and a lot of networking. It was fantastic meeting up with a lot of people I have talked with but never met. It's always nice finally meeting in person. And I appreciated all those that chatted with me for the first time and answered my various questions. I will be posting some excerpts from the conference soon but I actually jumped on here because I found a neat tool that I just had to mention.

If you ever come across the frustrating situation where you have a VS 2008 solution you just want to have a look at and you only have VS 2005 installed but you really don't have the time to try and source out VS 2008 (or can't install on the machine) for whatever reason you can use this nifty tool: http://home.hot.rr.com/graye/Articles/ProjectConverter.htm
It's simply a converter that converts your solution files from 08 back to 05. How handy... :)

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

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

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

Back to EPiServer

After a good few months off EPiServer, in order to work on a MOSS WCM project, I am very happy to find myself back on EPiServer, building an Intranet site for Coca Cola Amatil.

This project has one other interesting aspect to it, in that go live is set for 1 April so we have only 3 weeks to develop the site and 2 weeks for UAT, content loading and deployment.

It is actually fantastic timing as I am sadly leaving Intergen after 2 1/2 years with the company. My final day is Thursday 20th March when I'll be heading off overseas on my big OE. I start in south east asia for a month and then arrive in the UK at the end of April. I'll update on this closer to the time and provide a link to my personal travel blog.

Finishing this last EPiServer 5 project will be a nice little send off for me as I've been looking forward to completing my first version 5 site. So, I better get back to it.. I'm on a tight schedule :)

Now you can message me straight from my blog

Microsoft have provided the ability to include messenger on your blog. Simply click on the green button in the "Message Me" panel on the right and you'll be directly interacting with me on messenger!

If you want to use this yourself follow the instructions here

EPiServer CMS 5 SP1 Released

EPiServer CMS 5 SP1 has been released. You can get more details here:

http://www.episerver.com/en/EPiServer_Knowledge_Center/Documentation/Release-Notes/Release-Notes---EPiServer-CMS-5-SP1/