Announcing Falafel Tornado for Sitefinity

Posted by: on | Friday, March 08, 2013     Comments

Telerik’s Sitefinity CMS has been advancing at a tremendous pace. We’ve loved all the great new features, most notably the support for MVC, the inclusion of Kendo UI and the various client side features that come along with these technologies. After building several Sitefinity widgets that relied heavily on JavaScript, including the wildly successful Falafel Dashboard, a slick HTML5 replacement for Sitefinity’s default, we realized that we were relying on Visual Studio less and less. We eventually reached a point where we didn’t really need Visual Studio at all. So we decided to build Falafel Tornado and empower Sitefinity developers everywhere ...

"Hello World" guide to custom widgets for Falafel Dashboard

Posted by: on | Monday, August 13, 2012     Comments

Falafel Dashboard is a new state-of-the-art dashboard for Sitefinity MVC. Falafel Dashboard can be easily extended by the introduction of custom widgets for the Dashboard. In this column, we are going to create a “Hello World” widget and add it to the Dashboard.

 

The “Hello World” widget albeit very simple resembles the other widgets that are included out-of-the-box by being a standard Sitefinity MVC widget.

 

Let us start by creating the “Hello World” MVC widget:

 

The model:

namespace SitefinityWebApp.Mvc.Areas.HelloWorld.Models
{
    public class HelloWorldViewModel
    {
        public string Message { get; set; }...