Mastering Sitefinity MVC Widget Development

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Setup Visual Studio for Sitefinity Development

Lecture 1: Start a Visual Studio Project for Sitefinity

Lecture 2: Adding Nuget Packages to Visual Studio Projects

Lecture 3: Building and Running your Nuget package based Sitefinity Application

Chapter 3: Developing MVC Widgets in Visual Studio

Lecture 1: Introduction to Sitefinity VSIX and Sitefinity CLI

Lecture 2: Installing the Sitefinity CLI

Lecture 3: Generating the First Sitefinity Widget

Lecture 4: The use of ControllerToolboxItem Attribute

Lecture 5: Using the First Widget on a Page

Lecture 6: Using a second widget on a page with HandleUnknownAction

Chapter 4: Sitefinity Automatic Widget Designers

Lecture 1: Introduction to Widget Designers

Lecture 2: Adding Multiple Type properties to Models

Lecture 3: Adding Multiple Type properties to Conntrollers

Lecture 4: Adding Multiple Type properties to Views

Lecture 5: Adding Simple Attributes to affect visability of public properties

Lecture 6: Using MixedContentContext for Image Properties

Lecture 7: Using Library Manager API to access the Image in the View

Lecture 8: Adding Page Selectors, Tag Selectors, News Selectors and more to Designers

Chapter 5: Sitefinity custom Widget Designers

Lecture 1: Sitefinity Feather Convention for creating Custom Widget Designers

Lecture 2: Adding a second Custom Widget Designer

Lecture 3: Adding a JSON file to set priority and visibility

Lecture 4: Adding JSON file to set Components and Scripts

Lecture 5: Using Angular to persist public property to the database

Lecture 6: Fixing the missing sf-Date-Time-Selector for the Custom Designer

Chapter 6: Developing MVC Widgets in Class Libraries

Lecture 1: Creating a class library to contain an MVC Widget for Sitefinity

Lecture 2: Upgrading the Sitefinity Application

Lecture 3: Adding Nuget Packages to the Class Library

Lecture 4: Adding the ConntrollerContainer Attribute to the assembly

Lecture 5: Using the Sitefinity CLI to generate a Widget for the Class Library

Lecture 6: Enabling Code Completion for CSHTML files in Class Library

Lecture 7: Building and running our new widget from the Class Library

Lecture 8: Modifying the CssClass, sfMvcIcn and the main icon for the widget