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Thunder Update: An issue with registering templates was discovered and has already been patched. Be sure to update to the latest Sitefinity Thunder version for the fix! Sitefinity Thunder continued it's timely release schedule last week with a new 1.0.9 release. Here are some highlights. Website Template Project Type A new Visual Studio Project type is now available for quickly creating Website Templates. This project type replaces old "Theme" project type that was previously ...

As mentioned in Last week's Sitefinity Thunder webinar, the free extension is on a very aggressive release schedule, with a new release coming approximately every two weeks. Last week marked the latest Thunder release, which coincided with the Sitefinity 5.0 Service Pack 1. If you haven't already downloaded the service pack, be sure to look for it (and the updated SDK) in your Sitefinity account. VB Support Thunder 1.0.8.0 now includes VB ...

I would like to offer my thanks to everyone who attended today's Webinar on Sitefinity Thunder. I am working on making a video available as soon as possible, so please watch this space for updates (I'll also post an update on Twitter). I'm also compiling the Q&A, getting details on some questions, and will update this post soon. Webinar Video Watch on YouTube Thunder Download and Information Sitefinity Thunder is available on the ...

Sitefinity Thunder is a free Visual Studio extension designed to help developers extend and customize Sitefinity websites. It allows you to both enhance local development projects, as well as connect to remote staging (and even live) websites to keep all custom elements in sync. Although the current release (1.0.1.0 as of today) supports working only with themes, the team is already working to expand this to additional Sitefinity customizations such as widgets, templates, and even ...

This week, Sitefinity partner Falafel Software has been exploring using Telerik's Kendo UI JavaScript platform within Sitefinity. Be sure to take a look at these articles for some of the background that not only inspired this article, but made it possible. Using Kendo with Sitefinity - Part 1 - Kendo PanelBar Using KendoUI with Sitefinity - Part 2 - Kendo Menu User Controls Falafel developed a KendoUIControlBase class that inherits from SimpleView so that it ...

When extending Sitefinity via a custom Intra-Site Module, you'll often encounter the need to store and retrieve settings, either for user preferences or any other process within your module. There are many ways to do this yourself, including a custom table, flat text and xml files. Fortunately, Sitefinity has a powerful configurations manager that you can tap into quite easily to store and manage all kinds of information for your custom modules. Best of all, ...

We previously looked at how you can retrieve dynamic module items using the Module Builder API. Today we'll take a look at how you can use that same API to also create new items. Using the sample code from the Code Reference (generated for every dynamic module you create) you can easily develop a new public widget that allows your site visitors to create items. Because dynamic module items support the Content Lifecycle, you ...

Last week, Gabe introduced us to the Module Builder, Sitefinity's latest feature available now since version 4.4. Gabe demonstrated the intuitive way the Module Builder can extend Sitefinity by creating a simple Showcases module (similar to our own Sitefinity Showcase). In this post, we'll take a closer look at how you can use the Module Builder API, as well as the new Code Reference (which generates code samples for every dynamic module you ...

The Sitefinity SDK for version 4.4 is now available for download. Today we'll take a look at one of the new samples: the Sitefinity Sitemap Module. Although the end result of generating an xml sitemap of your website is a simple one, it demonstrates several key concepts that developers might find useful. The initial release of this module includes all sitemap pages, as well as News, Events, and Blog Posts, as these are the content ...

The Sitefinity 4 Migration Module takes care of migrating pages and content items from Sitefinity 3. However, if you've done any custom development, such as custom user controls and modules that use the Sitefinity 3 API, you may find these controls need to be updated. Namespaces and DLLs In Sitefinity 3, most of the components were spread out amongst several DLL files, each with their own separate namespace. Sitefinity 4 reduced many of these to ...