Looking for advice on developing with Sitefinity

Posted by Community Admin on 04-Aug-2018 20:58

Looking for advice on developing with Sitefinity

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Posted by Community Admin on 12-Jul-2013 00:00

Hi -

 We are evaluating sitefinity as a replacment for sitecore (another .NET CMS).

 Can someone help me understand how it is best to develop with aitefinity and Visual Studio?

 I would like to be able to create widgets, themes and all other elements that are necessary for a site.

  With Sitecore you opened up the folder containing the website and started working from their.

It appears with Thunder I can create a Visual Studio project for  themes.     Do I need a separate Visual Studio project for the code assets (widgets, controls, etc)?

  Is it a good idea to  open the folder containing the Sitefinity site in Visual Studio as a web site
and start working from their?

  To me it makes sense to have one Visual Studio project where all your assets could be maintained.     By assets I mean themes, widgets, controls, etc.  

  I can't seem to find any good documentation on this discussion.

 Thanks

Posted by Community Admin on 31-Jul-2013 00:00

Sitefinity is a web application project, so to develop with it, you'd simply open the project file (csproj) which is created when you generate a new blank site. From there, widgets are simply User Controls (ascx) which can be developed inside the application directly.

You can add them to a separate library if they are reusable components, but this is not required.

For more information, take a look at the Documentation in the Getting Started guide for developers: www.sitefinity.com/.../development

I hope this is helpful

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