Hello everyone,
I am glad to announce that the Sitefinity SDK 4.2 is now officially ready for download.
What’s new
Corporate Starter Kit - a new corporate starter kit that features a Real Estate company
• Custom Agents module that allows you to create different agents listed publicly on the website
• Custom Real Estate Module that allows you to create real estate properties associated to agents.
• Facebook widget showing activity on your Facebook page
• Twitter widget showing predefined number of tweets
• Real Estate properties slider rotating
• Related News widget showing news from the same categories of your news item
• Related Events widget showing events from the same categories of your news item
• Real estate theme and master-page.
Intranet Starter Kit – a new intranet starter kit that features
• Intranet theme and master-page
• Silverlight widget using RadChart for showing Sitefinity website activity
Empty Project Sample
• Features a blank Sitefinity 4.2 project that can be used for a playground.
Locations Module – A simple content-based module that implements only the basic functionality for a Sitefinity module. Used to represent locations (such as office branches or restaurant addresses)
• Demonstrates a complete content-based module implementation
• Uses a custom OpenAccess data provider
• Demonstrates using Definitions to create the backend and frontend interfaces
• Demonstrates using the Virtual Path Provider for mapping embedded templates
• Implements a custom Content View public widget (LocationsView) using a built-in control designer for List and Details view
Testimonials Module – An example Intra-Site (user control-based) module that collects and displays user testimonials. Demonstrates a Sitefinity module without having to implement or inherit from the Content model
• Uses standard ASP.NET User Controls
• Demonstrates a multi-page admin interface
• Uses a custom user-control-based Content View (TestimonialsView) with a custom control designer
• Uses the Sitefinity routing system for search-friendly URLs
• Includes a custom control for collecting testimonials from users
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Template Importer
• Sitefinity native module that allows you to importer templates generated by the
Sitefinity Template Builder. Shared across all starter kits and also available as a separate sample.
Common Sample Utilities project - Set of helper methods that ease the use of the Sitefinity API shared across all samples.
What’s changed
Education Starter Kit
• Demonstrates comprehensive use of the Sitefinity API to create a full-blown website from code
Charity Starter Kit
• Demonstrates comprehensive use of the Sitefinity API to create a full-blown website from code
What’s fixed
• Checking Sitefinity assemblies instead of OpenAccess when running a sample from new version
• Disabled Open Documentation buttons
• Fixed links, added ASP.NET Ajax RSS feed
• Renamed Charity Starter Kit to Non-Profit
• Updated sample requirements
Best Regards,
the Sitefinity team
