Posts Tagged ‘Dot Net’
Draft & Publish functionality for ASP.NET web parts
One of my favorite features in SharePoint is the ability to edit a web part page in a draft version, design the page layout conveniently and then finally publish all the changes in a click. In ASP.NET web parts, this feature is not coming out of the box (changes are propagating immediately and can be seen by all users). For that reason, designers & content authors are unable to complete a page design before making the changes visible. In this article I will show how to extend the Web Parts framework and create a Publishing Control that will add Draft & Publish functionality.
Why C# version for DotNetNuke is not (so) important?
Whenever possible, extending frameworks and robust applications should NOT be done by touching the core code and recompilation but with external, new units of code to be plugged into the framework. The open-closed principle teaches us that application should be opened for extensions but closed for modifications Read the rest of this entry »
