Kentico CMS offers you great possibilities of extending the set of existing features and thus enhancing the functionality delivered to the website visitors and CMS users. One of the most powerful elements of the Kentico CMS are web parts. Web parts are controls adding unique functionality to your website. You can develop custom web parts delivering the functionality you need. The session will present you with all the considerations of the web part development process. You will see how to create a web part from scratch and how to use it with Kentico CMS afterwards.

1. Kentico CMS Web parts development
Karol Jarkovsky (karolj@kentico.com)
Consultant, Kentico Software s.r.o.

2. Motivation
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3. Agenda
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Web parts Life Cycle
Web parts Architecture
Web parts Development
Web parts Future

4. Web parts Life Cycle
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OnContentLoaded Init
Init Load
Load
PreRender
PreRender

5. Web parts Life Cycle
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CMSPortalManager
.CMSPortalManager_Init()
CMSPortalManager
.LoadContent()
CMSPagePlaceholder
.LoadContent()
CMSAbstractLayout
.LoadContent()
CMSWebPartZone
.LoadWebPartsContent()
CMSAbstractWebPart
.LoadContent()

6. CMSAbstractWebPart class
Web parts Architecture
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Properties
bool RenderEnvelope
object RelatedData
CMSWebPartZone ParentZone
bool StandAlone
bool StopProcessing
string NotResolveProperties
string SQLProperties
ViewModeEnum ViewMode
string CacheItemName
string CacheDependencies
bool IsWidget
Methods
GetValue()/SetValue()
ClearCache()
ReloadData()
ReloadConsumers()
GetCacheDependency()

7. Web parts Development
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8. Web parts Future
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• New base class CMSAbstractLayoutWebPart
• Advanced layout as web part
• Saves development time
Layout web parts
• New section in CMS Desk-> My Desk and Site
Manager-> Dashboard
• Personalized content
• Widget support
Dashboard
• Allows developers define template as ASPX
• Allows editors to further enhance template from
CMS Desk-> Design tab
Portal Engine for
ASPX templates

9. Questions
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10. Questions