Sitefinity Custom Widgets

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Sitefinity Custom Widget

• Sitefinity Knowledge Base

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Sitefinity Custom Widget

• Custom widgets are designed to improve the
  development of controls for Sitefinity CMS. When
  creating new custom widgets, open a user control
  in visual studio, you must override
  the LayoutTemplatePath property and put the path
  of the cutom widget .
• When registering the new widget in Sitefinity CMS
  toolbox, you must provide the whole path, as
  opposed to only the virtual path.

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Steps to create Custom Widget

• Step 1 Open your project in visual studio
• Step 2 Right click on Solution
• - Add gtgt New project gtgt web gtgt asp.net server
  control gtgt give name and select where to storegt
  click on Add
• - Right click on your project add reference gt
  Browse gt select telerik.sitefinity gt Add gt Ok

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Steps to create Custom Widget

• - Override the InitializeControls and
  LayoutTemplatePath methods
• - If you want reference any template to your
  project you can add
• - After that right click on your project add
  reference gtgt solution gtgt Projects gt check your
  custom widget(here mine is ServerControl1) gt ok.

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Steps to create Custom Widget

• After that right click on your project add
  reference gtgt solution gtgt Projects gt check your
  custom widget(here mine is ServerControl1) gt ok.

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Steps to create Custom Widget

• After that right click on your project add
  reference gtgt solution gtgt Projects gt check your
  custom widget(here mine is ServerControl1) gt ok.
• Build your solution gtgt register your custom
  widget to toolbox