Mastering Sitefinity MVC Widget Development

Learn the ins and outs of developing professional MVC widgets for Sitefinity

What you'll learn
Students will learn how to create MVC based Widgets in Sitefinity and create Widget Designers to facilitate changes of properties.
You will be able to understand the use of Angular in building Widget Designers
You will be able to create external Assemblies to host your widgets
You will be able to bring Razor syntax highlighting to Class Library projects for Widgets

Requirements
Understanding of Sitefinity as a Content Management System
Prior knowledge of MVC is a plus
General Knowledge of .NET development is a plus
Description
In addition to Sitefinity CMS built-in widgets, you can create new widgets from scratch and implement your own logic and customize widgets' built-in functionality. You also have the option of keeping the widgets in separate assemblies and deploy them independently of your project. You can then use your new widgets side by side with the built-in ones.

With Sitefinity CMS, you have the option to develop widgets in both the SitefinityWebApp project or in external assemblies. The underlying development concept is the same but the way you organize and manage your code differs between the two methods.

In this course you will learn the following

Building a Sitefinity application from scratch using Nuget Packages in Visual Studio

Using the Sitefinity CLI to generate boiler plate code for Widgets

Understand the use of Controllers, Models and Views in the structure of a Sitefinity Widget

Learn about the Automatic Widget Designer in Sitefinity

Learn about the Property Attributes that facilitate the creation of complex UX in Widget Designers

Building Custom widget Designers and the use of Sitefinity Feather

Using JSON files to set the Priority, Visibility, Components and Scripts for a Designer

Using Angular to connect public properties to the Sitefinity database in Designers

Building Class Libraries to host external Sitefinity Widgets

Tips and tricks along the way to make Sitefinity MVC Widget Development fun and productive.

Who this course is for
The target students for this course are students looking to develop MVC widgets for Sitefinity professionally
Also students needing to build Widget Designers for Sitefinity MVC Widgets