Creating the NewsRotator as a user control
In this section you will build a control for your Sitefinity application as a User control. You will build a NewsRotator control, which loads a set of news items, displays basic details and rotates them in a slideshow manner.
TIP: For more information about user and custom controls, see Setting up your work environment.
NOTE: This tutorial outlines the main concepts of creating a control. You can find the full code sample for the NewsRotator control inside the samples project, which is shipped together with Sitefinity SDK. Note that this sample is created as a custom control, but you can adapt the code to the user control scenario.
The tutorial contains the following steps:
- Creating an empty user control
- Implementing the features of the control
- Registering and using the control