Creating the NewsRotator as a custom control

In this section you will build a control for your Sitefinity application as a custom control. You will build the NewsRotator control, which loads a set of news items, display basic details and rotate them in a slideshow manner.

TIP: For more information about user and custom controls, see Setting up your work environment.

NOTE: This tutorial outlines only the main concepts of creating a control. You can find a full code sample for the NewsRotator control inside the samples project, which is shipped together with Sitefinity SDK.

The tutorial contains the following:

1. Creating an empty custom control
2. Creating a template
3. Referencing the template in the custom control
4. Implementing the features of the control
5. Registering and using the control