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2. Building Your First Component

Phil Wicklund and Jason Wilkerson2

(1)Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

(2)Minnetrista, Minnesota, USA

Finally! It’s time to bust out Visual Studio and start building something. I can hardly wait. Where does our Sitecore development adventure start? A Hello World example of course! This Hello World example is sure to be the most exciting Hello World example you’ve ever encountered, right?

In this chapter we’ll build two components: a view rendering and a controller rendering. The view rendering will serve as our “Hello World” minimalist walkthrough. From there we’ll discover a more ...

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