An undocumented discovery - Sitefinity - General Discussions

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Posted by Community Admin on 04-May-2011 00:00

Hi,

I just discovered something today that I wasnt aware existed and I just wanted to validate my findings.

If you add a custom control to the toolboxconfig file, like so:

<add enabled="True" type="SitefinityControls.NewsletterSignup" title="Newsletter signup" description="" resourceClassId="" cssClass="" layoutTemplate="" moduleName="" Title="Sign up for news123!" Message="Sign up to our regular newsletter." name="NewsletterSignup" />

If you have a public property in the control which matches the properties set in the config entry (in my example I have a public property for Title and Message) then Sitefinity will automatically set the values of those public properties to the values you have set in the config file.

Is this a sitefinity thing, or just a .NET thing - it's awesome either way, and very helpful!

higgsy

Posted by Community Admin on 09-May-2011 00:00

Hi higgsy,

Yes, it is possible to make changes to the configuration straight from the .config files, you will need to restart the application so that those changes can be read and applied on application start/first call. However this is not a recommended practice since it's much easier for a user to mess up the configuration (e.g. a typo or wrong syntax) and no error handling is available for this level of intervention.
I hope you find the above information useful. If you need any further assistance, please let me know.

Greetings,
Boyan Barnev
the Telerik team

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