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Table of contents Introduction Video of the final result Code walkthrough Installation instructions and code download What’s next Introduction It may come as a surprise to many of you that vast majority of Sitefinity user interface (among others, all modules) is actually data driven. Behind the ...

Table of contents Introduction Video of the final result Code walkthrough A bit of background Installation instructions and code download Introduction Widgets (controls) are one of the key points of the extensibility in Sitefinity. Widgets are a small piece of functionality that users of Sitefinity can ...

The series introduction In past few weeks I’ve seen many people expressing their concern about the (quantity of) features in Sitefinity 4.0. Coupled with the new pricing scheme, some people wondered why would they go with Sitefinity when there are cheaper or even free alternatives ...

I am glad to inform you that we have just released service pack 2 for Sitefinity 3.6.   You can find the official announcement on our forums in this post: http://www.sitefinity.com/support/forums/support-forum-thread/b1043S-cbdked.aspx   As you will see an important security vulnerability has been patched and we'd highly ...

With this post I’d like to inform you that we have finished the documentation for the new backend framework introduced in Sitefinity 3.6. All 60 articles written on this subject will be transferred to the Developer Manual shortly and until then you can use the temporary ...

[This post is part of the developer's manual preview published on this blog. You can find temporary TOC here.]   CommandPanel is the class used by Sitefinity which represents the one single command panel. If you are creating a custom command panel (based on Composite ...

[This post is part of the developer's manual preview published on this blog. You can find temporary TOC here.]   ProviderControlPanel is a specialized ControlPanel class which comes with built-in infrastructure for the modules that support multiple providers. If your module supports multiple providers (see ...

[This post is part of the developer's manual preview published on this blog. You can find temporary TOC here.]   ControlPanel class is based on the ViewModeControl, just as any other View. ControlPanel is a special type of View - namely the root View of ...

[This post is part of the developer's manual preview published on this blog. You can find temporary TOC here.]   ViewModeUserControl class is a method-by-method copy of the ViewModeControl class and in that sense, the reference of the ViewModeControl can be used as a reference ...

[This post is part of the developer's manual preview published on this blog. You can find temporary TOC here.]   ViewModeControl is the central class of the new Sitefinity backend architecture introduced in Sitefinity 3.6. Every time we create a View, we are basically creating ...