Hibernating Rhinos has two really good products for profiling applications that are using NHibernate or Linq to SQL, NHibernate Profiler and Linq to Sql Profiler. To profile your application you need to reference an appender and initialize it upon startup. This can easily be done in several ways in EPiServer CMS, using HTTP modules, the [...]
In my previous post I described how to query an IIS log as if it was a database table using SQL Servers OPENROWSET. This post is a short follow up on that describing how to query EPiServer (log4net) logs in the same way. In EPiServers logfiles, there are no character sequence that can be used as row [...]
IIS logs are a good source of information when you want to analyze the behavior of your site. There are many tools and log parsers around, but I tend to prefer SQL Servers OPENROWSET to parse and query log files. To use OPENROWSET you need to map the format of the file to a virtual database [...]
EPiServer CMS 6 introduced new tools for site and license administration. One not so known feature in these tools are the ability to generate demo licenses. In admin mode, click Site Information under the Config tab. Select the License Information tab and scroll down to Download License section. Select Demo license and hit Download License. [...]
Page Type Builder might be one of the best things that happened to EPiServer CMS over the last couple of years. I strongly recommend you to use it. With that said, I want to share a small debugging tip that is very useful while using Page Type Builder. Debugging is in general a lot about [...]