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In an increasingly digital world, ensuring that products and services are accessible to all individuals, including those with disabilities, is not just a matter of legal compliance but also a moral imperative and a competitive advantage. Here’s what you need to know about this landmark legislation.

As digitalization keeps increasing in our society the amount of security threats keeps increasing. Having a secure site is important not only to keep hackers from accessing your data, but it's also important to keep the visitors safe. In this blog post we'll go through some important aspects that will keep your site secure.

In this blog post we’ll go through the major benefits in upgrading to the newest version as well as a rough outline of the upgrade process. 

Do you have locks on the door of your home? The answer to this question may seem obvious to most people today, but if you go back a few generations, there were probably many who either didn't have a lock on their door, or at least didn't lock it that often.

A good coding practice is to keep the view layer in an MVC structure as simple as possible and with no or minimal logic. In this blog post I’ll go through a pattern that I often use to be able to create easy to use extension methods – but without sacrificing the testability.

In this blog post I’ll re-introduce an Optimizely addon that’s been available for several years but that perhaps has not gotten a proper introduction to the developer community. The addon adds standardized management of settings in the form of content objects that are editable from within the Optimizely platform, just as pages and blocks.

Last week Optimizely customers have been able to see a lot of news great and inspiration from Optimizely in the virtual Opticon21 event that went live over three different parts of the world between Tuesday and Thursday. In this blog post, I'll give a summary of what we learned at the event and what's coming from Optimizely in the near future.

Episerver allows you to create string lists - but what happens when you want to add regular expression validation to these? In this blog I'll go through the pitfalls of the built in functionality as well as showing how we can get this working by creating a custom attribute.

With a continuous delivery process with frequent releases, it’s important to be able to work with up to date content so that your different environments are as like each other as they can be. At Epinova we’ve seen how this – when not being automated – can lead to a lot of wasted time as well as bugs not being caught early in the process (when they have low effect and cost).

Building top notch solutions today requires a high level of reusability to quickly be able to deliver a solution that caters for today’s customer demands for web sites and e-commerce solutions. To do this we at Epinova try to package our best practices as much as possible to be able to quickly get started with new solutions using best practice – but also to be able to keep our long list of customer solutions up to date. We believe in a healthy eco system where with sharing and we've therefore decided to put more efforts into supporting open source.

Episerver Live Monitor is a free addon to Episerver that's been around for quite a while. When I recently got the request to try and add it to a customer site, I had to investigate a bit since I had not seen or worked with it for a few years.

Episerver now supports renaming of custom properties without any bad consequences to the database. In this blog post we will look how this works and how to apply this properly to existing solutions.

Recent changes in .NET and Google Chrome can result in broken PDFs when viewing the PDF in Google Chrome. This will affect all Asp.Net based applications using Forms Authentication with larger PDFs that require authentication to download them. In this blog post we'll discuss the cause of this - but also what can be done to remedy the issue.

In Episerver an editor is normally registered for a combination of a .Net type and an optional ui hint using the EditorDescriptorRegistration attribute. In this blog post we’ll look on how you can add editors conditionally at start up.

Episervers built in property type List<ContentReference> is a very powerful feature. At Epinova we've used this for adding relations between items, for instance adding tags where a tag might be another content item. However, there's an issue with editing this property in Episerver that you need to fix in order to use the out of the box editing. In this post I'll show how to solve this.