Archive for May, 2007

Sitefinity Meets Web 2.0 (part 2) : Dating site

Posted on May 28, 2007. Filed under: Pushing the envelope |

Undoubtedly, it takes a programmer to write about dating and romance, while using diagrams, classes, methods… Furthermore, it is also only a programmer that won’t be considered pervert if writes about dating and titles one of the sections “Basic implementation idea”. So without further ado…
This post will describe how you can use Sitefinity to roll [...]

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Working with complex properties in Custom public controls (WebTypeEditor)

Posted on May 25, 2007. Filed under: Tip of the week |

When working with Sitefinity, specifically with public web controls (such as Image of Posts list) you may have noticed some properties that have a “Select” button next to them. Those properties (we’ll call them Complex properties for the purpose of this post) have one thing in common : It is impossible or very hard for [...]

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Quick question!

Posted on May 22, 2007. Filed under: Uncategorized |

Dear readers,
I’m sorry that I haven’t asked this question earlier, but better late than never…
Would like me to post some samples in VB.NET? So far it was only C#. Please leave a comment if you’d like some VB.NET samples. If you show the interest, I’d gladly provide you with VB.NET samples as well.
Thanks,
Ivan

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Building a module for Sitefinity (part 6) : Anatomy of a web control

Posted on May 22, 2007. Filed under: Building a pluggable module |

Generally, we can say that all web controls you are going to build for Sitefinity modules have several things in common. In this post I will explain how I’ve approached building a ControlPanel control for Contacts module. Once that is explained everything else should come pretty easy to you. At the end of this post [...]

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Sitefinity meets Web 2.0 (part 1) : Digg-clone application

Posted on May 19, 2007. Filed under: Pushing the envelope |

 
Sitefinity 3.0 is much more than just a CMS. It’s flexible, modular and open architecture let’s you build on top of Sitefinity virtually any kind of web application. In the first post of this series, I’ll discuss how could one approach building a Digg-clone web application. It’s actually much simpler than you may think. [...]

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Sitefinity meets Web 2.0

Posted on May 17, 2007. Filed under: Pushing the envelope |

To break the monotony I’ve decided to make a short break from pluggable module series (though that series we’ll continue parallel with this new one) and give you the list of ten Web 2.0 applications you can build with Sitefinity! Some of you may scratch your head now and wonder if I was celebrating official [...]

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Building a Module for Sitefinity (part 5) : Module structure

Posted on May 16, 2007. Filed under: Building a pluggable module, Projects |

The Contacts pluggable module will be made of two assemblies : Sample.Contacts and Sample.Contacts.Data
The business logic and UI will be implemented in Sample.Contacts module, while the data access we’ll be done through the Sample.Contacts.Data assembly. Take a look at the following diagram to see the big picture :

Sample.Contacts assembly
There are five main parts of this [...]

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