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Most of the time, you as a developer, will be developing end user modules that have a very specific purpose. On the sample modules provided in the documentation we have demonstrated various approaches for this kind of development.
However, from time to time, you will see that you keep developing very similar modules that vary only in details. The example of such module is Sitefinity Generic Content module. When you recognize such pattern, it makes sense to abstract all the commonalities and design one extensible module that could be easily reused across many similar modules.
In this topic of the manual, we are going to explore the subject of designing extensible modules. As a reference we are going to use built-in Generic Content module.
By designing Views in such manner we will be able to take any given View from our extensible View and use it in other module with little or no effort. Since we never know in advance where the little modifications might come, we will design every View very flexibly so that the inheriting module can change pretty much any aspect of the base View, while reusing everything else.
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