Generating custom control toolbox - Sitefinity - General Discussions

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Posted by Community Admin on 27-Aug-2010 00:00

Is it possible to generate a custom control toolbox through the fluent API?

Im creating a module and this module has some different custom controls in it. So I was wondering if its possible to register these custom controls in a new toolbox? So the user only have to register the module, and then the module sets up the toolbox.

Posted by Community Admin on 27-Aug-2010 00:00

Hello Daniel,

It is possible. Inyour module override InitializeToolbox and add controls/sections to the toolbox

var toolboxes = Config.Get<ToolboxesConfig>();

var moduleControls = toolboxes.Toolboxes["ModuleControls"];

var section = moduleControls

.Sections

.Where<ToolboxSection>(r => r.Name == "ModuleToolboxSection")

.FirstOrDefault();

if (section == null)

section = new ToolboxSection(moduleControls.Sections)

Name = "ModuleToolboxSection",

Title = "ModuleToolboxSection",

Description = "ModuleToolboxSection",

;

moduleControls.Sections.Add(section);

if (!section.Tools.Any<ToolboxItem>(q => q.Name == "RadCalendar"))

var tool = new ToolboxItem(section.Tools)

Name = "RadCalendar",

Title = "RadCalendar",

Description = "RadCalendar",

ModuleName = MyModule.ModuleName,

CssClass = "sss",

ControlType = typeof(RadCalendar).AssemblyQualifiedName

;

section.Tools.Add(tool);

All the best,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 27-Aug-2010 00:00

Thanks Ivan.

So nice :-)

I really Like this product :-)

/Daniel

Posted by Community Admin on 27-Aug-2010 00:00

Yeah, it's pretty sweet eh :)

I've already sold an upcoming project on it, and converted another dev shop from DNN over to SF4 (and they've already sold a project on it)...the designer is crazy good.

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