Enabling long term caching of static frontend files is good for the performance of both servers and browsers. However, to instantly force a re-download of files following a new release, cache busting solution is needed. This is an update to my original cache busting solution and blog post. It is more lean and efficient and supports ASP.Net Core, too.
I were recently tasked with creating code to render PDF files containing Arabic words using PdfSharp. Unfortunately, PdfSharp does not support Arabic or other right-to-left languages. Here is the workaround I made up.
I was missing some features and scalability from the built-in InRiver iPMC extension log. Therefore I did an integration that demonstrates how to log events, exceptions and metrics to Azure Application Insights (using it as a supplementary log service).
Usually importing images from a "hot folder" to iPMC would require a scheduled extension. But it can also be made serverless. See my demonstration here.
For a long time, transactional emails have been sent directly from Episerver, by rendering and sending a CMS page as an email. In this post I suggest another approach, where we simply tell SendGrid which template to use and what data to put in the template placeholders.