Migrating the GenericContent Web Control - Sitefinity - Upgrading Sitefinity

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Posted by Community Admin on 22-Nov-2011 00:00

Hi all
I have a simple 3.7 User Control with the
<sfWeb:GenericContent runat="server" ID="GenericContent1" />
control placed on it. (It is wrapped by some layout html)

In the code behind I have the class inheriting the IGenericContent interface.
[ControlDesignerAttribute("Telerik.Cms.Engine.WebControls.Design.GenericContentDesigner, Telerik.Cms.Engine")]
public partial class SiteControls_GreenBox : System.Web.UI.UserControl, IGenericContent
.....

This allows users to use the inbuilt editor to add content and the control just wraps the content with specific html for layout and styling.

How should I convert this for SF 4.3 and make sure that the content gets migrated over through the migration tool?

Thanks
Darrin

Posted by Community Admin on 24-Nov-2011 00:00

Hello Darrin,

With the next build coming next week we'll provide API that will support migration of custom widgets. You'll be required to implement a class that returns a Sitefinity 4 widget from a given 3.7 widget type. We'll also provide functionality for automatic coping of the properties if the interfaces of both the 3.7 and Sitefinity 4 widgets are the same.

Regards,
Pavel Iliev
the Telerik team

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