Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

Chapter 2. Extending Presentation Components

In this chapter, we will cover how to extend Sitecore presentation components to fulfil some real-life requirements. You will learn the following recipes:

• Altering rendering behavior using component properties
• Creating strongly-typed rendering parameters
• Achieving asynchronous operations using a custom device
• Creating multilingual content pages
• Generating RSS feeds for syndicated items
• Improving site performance by caching renderings
• Personalizing components

Introduction

In the previous chapter, you learned how to build pages with different presentation components, but presentation components are useful beyond just building pages. As a developer, you should provide an easier, error-free, and smart user interface ...