What’s new in documentation for the past two weeks

With the 5.1 release of Sitefinity, you have plenty of new features and improvements to play with. We’ve published documentation about new and old features. Here is the detailed list.

User Guide

• Creating an A/B Test
• A/B Test full report
• Setup email notification for form responses
• Configuring custom hierarchical widgets
• Configuring custom content widgets
• Creating and using custom modules

Installation and Administration Guide

• Upgrading the web.config and SitefinityWebApp.csproj files
• Upgrading Sitefinity 4.3 and 4.4 projects
• Activating and deactivating modules

Thunder

• Adding an existing folder to a Sitefinity Website Templates project
• Creating dynamic module selectors
• Creating a custom configuration section

Ecommerce

• Configuring eWAY payment processor

Developers Guide

• Control Definitions
  • Relationship between controls and definitions
  • Chain of responsibility
  • Setting definition properties manually
• Using ASP.NET MVC in Sitefinity
  • What is ASP.NET MVC
  • How does Sitefinity use ASP.NET MVC
    • Three MVC Modes
      • Classic mode
      • Pure mode
      • Hybrid mode
      • Which mode should I use
    • Creating custom models, controllers and views
      • Creating the model
      • Creating the controller
      • Creating the view
    • Creating MVC-based Sitefinity widgets
      • Adding an MVC widget to the toolbox
      • Implementing properties in the controller
  • Should I use MVC or WebForms

Getting Started Videos

• Creating a Hello World widget using Sitefinity MVC
• Sitefinity MVC modes: Classic, Pure and Hybrid
• Creating Sitefinity MVC widgets with public properties
• Using the Sitefinity API with MVC widgets
• Creating Sitefinity MVC widgets with multiple views
• Creating Sitefinity MVC widgets that input data

If you haven’t already, you can read the full release notes. It was a big release for us and we hope you like all the new stuff. Let us know.