Release notes

Sitefinity Thunder 1.0.2.0 Release Notes

What's New

• Widget registration – This feature allows developers to register their widgets in the Sitefinity Page Editor toolbox. The wizard is available only for web projects that reference Telerik.Sitefinity.dll (like SitefinityWebApp). All the user (*.ascx) and custom controls (based on WebControl class) available in that solution will be automatically detected and the developers can select the section where the controls should be added
• Ability to upload/download themes located in SitefinityWebApp to remote sites. This release adds full support for Themes located in the SitefinityWebApp project. This allows you to work for example on a local SitefinityWebApp and then upload the theme directly from the project to a remote site.
• Support for Visual Studio 11

• Temporary directory is not deleted when downloading a theme
• Projects from current solution are not listed properly
• Claims authentication issues

Hello,

We are glad to announce a new release of Sitefinity Thunder 1.0.5.0. Don't hesitate to contact us for any questions or concerns you might have.

Sitefinity Thunder 1.0.5.0 Release Notes

• Edit of widget templates – Thunder lists all widget templates in the Sitefinity explorer. Double clicking on a template (or pressing enter) opens it for edit. When a widget template is open, Thunder populates the toolbox with its properties, enabling the user to drag and drop them. Also provides intellisense for these properties available after you type Eval(“. When you save the widget template (Ctrl+S, File-Save etc…), it gets uploaded to Sitefinity.

• Item template for creating designers for already existing widget control – New item template is available at “Add New Item” that opens up a wizard which creates a designer for the selected control and allows you to pick which properties you want to edit in the simple view of the designer.

• Item template that creates a sample widget with template and designer – New item template is available at “Add New Item”, which creates a sample widget with message property that is displayed in the front end and a designer that allows you to edit the property.

• New button “Download” in the connection settings window – this button allows you to get an archive with all the needed files to update your Sitefinity project manually ( for example if you have a remote Sitefinity

Hi,

Sitefinity Thunder 1.0.6.0 has been just pushed to the Visual Studio Extensions gallery. Here're the release notes for this new version:

Sitefinity Thunder 1.0.6.0 Release notes

What's new

• Option to enable/disable backup of your themes is in VS – there is a new checkbox in the connection settings details, which allows you to get a backup of your theme, whenever you make changes to it. The backup is in form of an archive and it's saved in ~\App_Data\Sitefinity\WebsiteTemplates\Thunder\App_Themes\Backup\
• Ability to auto-upload themes on Save or pressing Ctrl+S/Ctrl+Shift+S.

Hi,

Sitefinity Thunder has been updated to version 1.0.7.0. 

What's new:

• Added support for Sitefinity 5.0 SP1

• Several issues with the solutions directories

Hello everyone,

We'll be posting release notes to the Visual Studio pages only, from now on.. Please follow the release cycles there.