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Controls are reusable self-contained units that can be easily integrated in many different applications. They could be used to present content on a web site or to extend the functionality of a web site. Telerik Sitefinity offers three options for extending the basic Sitefinity page structure with reusable components:

  • User Controls - classes which inherit from System.Web.UI.UserControl. Standard ASP.NET User Controls could be easily integrated into Sitefinity. This is the simplest way to bring third-party custom controls or reusable business logic into the Sitefinity structure.
  • Custom Controls - quite similar to the User Controls. Custom Controls are compiled to assemblies (.dll files).

  • RadControls - the award-winning Telerik controls that come with the Sitefinity distribution.

 

Sitefinity also provides Control Designers for some of the Built-in Modules. The designers could be extended to cover custom controls as well.  

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