Tag: content areas

April 20, 2013

How EPiServer's HTML helper PropertyFor works

PropertyFor is the counterpart of the Property control when building websites using EPiServer 7 and ASP.NET MVC. However, it does not work the same way as the Property control and understanding how it works is key to rendering the markup that you want and need.

March 11, 2013

Custom rendering of content areas

How to render content areas without using the built in functionality in EPiServer. And how to maintain some sort of on-page-editing functionality.

December 5, 2012

EPiServer 7 and MVC – Custom tags and CSS classes when rendering properties

The PropertyFor HTML helper handles a number of optional parameters for specifying tags and CSS classes. As they are specified using an anonymous object Intellisense isn't much help. Here's a reference of the options available.

August 7, 2012

EPiServer 7 – Content, Pages and Blocks

EPiServer 7 features a remade model for content with support for multiple types of content and an interesting new concept called blocks. In this post I'll visualize and walk through some of the most significant new concepts and changes from a developer's perspective.