EPiServer TechNews - September 2006

Welcome to the September issue of EPiServer TechNews!

This newsletter is aimed at all those interested in technical news about EPiServer and therefore contains articles that require a varying degree of understanding. Some of the articles included in the newsletter may be taken from external resources and blogs, in which case the relevant URL is also presented in the article.

Advanced property development with Atlas

Atlas is a free framework for building richer controls that take advantage of AJAX techniques. In this article, Jeremy Norman describes his experience in creating advanced custom properties and how to get started with the Atlas framework. Full code examples demonstrate the creation of a dialog-based and an Atlas-based property.

Read the article written by Jeremy Norman, Lead EPiServer Developer at Intergen New Zealand.

Caching Custom Data in EPiServer

If you are doing a lot of FindPagesWithCriteria calls or advanced searches with filtering on your site, you should probably look into caching the results to decrease database traffic and increase performance. Steve Celius shows you how in this article about caching your custom data with smart dependencies to avoid stale cache data

Read the article written by Steve Selius, Senior Consultant at EPiServer AB, Norway

A Polyglot Summer!

Micael Herkommer briefly summarizes some of the new EPiServer functions for multiple languages and gives tips on how they can affect the EPiServer development environment.

Read the article written by Micael Herkommer, Architect and Certified Solutions Developer at Inexor

EPiServer 4.61 SDK is now available!

The EPiServer 4.61 SDK has been updated and contains changes such as updated API documentation for 4.61 and new code samples. Download the SDK from the EPiServer Download Center.

 Problems with Internet Explorer 6 after Update from Microsoft
- Internet Explorer Crashes in Edit and Admin Mode of EPiServer!

The Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (KB918899) has caused problems with Internet Explorer 6 (IE &) for many of our users around the world. It has been discovered that this update can cause Internet Explorer to crash when using EPiServer's right-click menus in the Edit and Admin Mode of EPiServer.

Read the information sent out by EPiServer AB to all customers and partners, 1 September 2006.
 

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