Archive for February, 2007
Welcome to the “Pushing the envelope” category
Ever wanted to do something really weired with Sitefinity? In this category we’ll post about not-so-common scenarios and solutions.
How about building a module for importing content from an old site? Or hooking up Sitefinity with a web service… Obviously, I can’t come up with that many strange scenarios in the very first post, because [...]
Welcome to the “Sitefinity & rad Controls” category
As you may already know, Sitefinity comes with award-winning rad Control suit. If, by some chance, you are unfamiliar with rad Controls you can get a pretty good idea here.
The posts in this category will show sample scenarios on how to use r.a.d.Controls inside of your website to, as the slogan quite well puts it, [...]
Using your own Master Page and providing blog-like calendar navigation
This blog post will explain the basic procedure of creating your own Master Page for Sitefinity and, just to make it a bit less dull, we’ll make navigation in a blog-like calendar fashion. Personally, I don’t think this is a perfect way for providing navigation (heck, I don’t think it’s even good, let alone perfect), [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Welcome to the “Looking good!” category
Having a “really, really, ridiculuosly good looking” web site is important. In this category we’ll be posting tips, advice and tutorials how to make your site look good. In our quest to wow your visitors, we’ll be taking advantage of award-winning rad Controls suit which comes as a part of Sitefinity, but we’ll also show [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Project #1 – Image gallery User Control (Part 2)
NOTE : This post is a part of a series. Read first part if you’ve missed it.
[VB.NET example]
So, after we have uploaded the images, now it’s time to create a user control that will display them. In case you are unfamiliar with using User Controls in Sitefinity consult Developer Manual on that subject. You can [...]
Project #1 – Image gallery User Control (Part 1)
Note : The images in this project are taken from www.sxc.hu and are ownership of their respective authors. I’ve used animals because the constraints for using actual people are a bit more complex.
For the first project I’ve chose something simple yet very useful: an Image gallery User Control. The scenario is very common. Let’s say [...]
Working on a live UserControl
In case you’ve wondered how to modify already uploaded user control without constantly uploading it through Sitefinity pages, it’s handy to know that Sitefinity creates a “UserControl” folder inside of the website’s root folder and stores there all uploaded user controls . Once you upload your control, you can open the user control file (.ascx) [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Welcome to the “Projects” category
Learning by an example is probably the oldest method of teaching and since it’s been around for such a long time, it’s surely one of the better methods. In this category we’ll every so often take apart particular project into pieces and describe how it is built in series of posts.
Projects may include simple projects, [...]
Welcome to the “Concepts & Theory” category
While developing Sitefinity, we are trying as much as possible, to avoid reinventing the wheel. Therefore, we strive to take advantage of best practices guidlines and when possible extend, not write from the scratch, already existing Asp.NET features.
In this category, we’ll try to point out the subjects you should get acquinted with in order to [...]
Tip #1 : Finding child pages based upon a parent page
The scenario
Well, except from the fact that one of the pillars of good parenthood is the ability to tell your own children from all the other kids, there are actually other (more practical and less formal) reasons why you may need to get the reference to all the child pages of any given page made [...]
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