Comments on: EPiPattern: DO & DONT with EPiServer Properties

By: EPiServer Developer Resources | Frederik Vig - ASP.NET developer

EPiServer Developer Resources | Frederik Vig - ASP.NET developer — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:56:31 +0000

[...] EPiPattern: DO & DONT with EPiServer Properties [...]

By: Fredrik Haglund

Fredrik Haglund — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:03:02 +0000

Fredrik Karlson: Yes, a valuable comment! EPiServers pattern using NULL for non-existing values or properties has several aspects.

By: Fredrik Karlsson

Fredrik Karlsson — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:57:02 +0000

You forgot the most important aspect of null. This is how EPiServer determine if it can be overwritten when you use “Fetch Data From”. So don’t remember to make sure your own specialized properties can be set to null.

By: Fredrik Haglund

Fredrik Haglund — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:32:09 +0000

Thank you, Henrik!

By: Henrik Nystrom

Henrik Nystrom — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:38:29 +0000

Great set of tips. An amendment to using the coalesce (??) operator.
If your property is a value type you cast need to be a bit different.

DateTime x = (DateTime)(CurrentPage[”MyProperty”] ?? DateTime.Now);