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[This post is part of the developer's manual preview published on this blog. You can find temporary TOC here.]
Now, that we have examined the reasons behind the new architecture in Sitefinity 3.6 and that we have determined which parts of backend architecture have changed, we are going to take a high level overview of the new backend architecture. You can think of this article as a map for all the coming articles - which will talk in more detail about specific part of this “map”.
Having this in mind, we know that every view can have child controls, since every CompositeControl and UserControl can. In addition to this, however, every View can have a collection of child Views or Subviews. A child View is nothing more than another control based on ViewModeControl or ViewModeUserControl (actually it is a control that implements IViewInfo interface but for the sake of simplicity let’s leave that out of the picture for now).
By overriding base class CreateViews() method, Views are able to add their subviews, and their subviews can add their own subviews in the same manner and so on.
In the next article we are going to dissect the Views as building units of the new backend architecture and provide samples on implementing them.
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