2020

Reading very large gzipped json files in c#

This is a little code snippet that I often find quite handy. It's a piece of c# code that opens a gzipped json file and iterates through the items in it. Since it takes it piece by piece (as opposed to loading everything in memory) it's can pretty much handle files of any size.

.NET Development C#

May 31 2020

Showing the right block types at the right time

Often, it can be handy to have very exact and dynamic control over what editors can see or do. One of my weapons of choice for this is the good, old and trusted Virtual Roles. In this scenario we have a multi-site Episerver, where some of the block types it should only be possible to use on one of the sites.

Optimizely (Episerver)C#Tips and Tricks

May 26 2020

Enrich Episerver Forms with additional system fields

Episerver forms adds a couple of system columns to each form submission when you export the submissions. But it happens that the people that need the form submission reports want additional data - for example the url of the page the form was on - and for some reason they don't know all Episerver page Guids by heart.

C#Tips and Tricks Optimizely (Episerver)

May 15 2020

Wyam - dynamically creating a static site

Wyam is a really cool .NET Core based tool to generate static websites. I took it out for a test-run, using this blogs RSS feed as a content source.

Tips and Tricks CMS

May 12 2020