Tag: sublayout

Allowing sublayouts to control their own HTML cache keys

I spoke to a fellow MVP recently, Kern Herskind Nightingale and the topic of my blog came up, along with the fact that I hadn’t (at the time) updated for a while.  The reason was my previous post about overriding rendering types. Originally, I had intended to use an example that would allow developers to add an interface to their sublayout classes and specify custom logic around building their cache keys. Continue reading Allowing sublayouts to control their own HTML cache keys

Sitecore Rendering Types

The topic of rendering types came up at the office the other day, and I wanted to write a quick post about them.  Rendering types are a group of classes that Sitecore uses to build up the controls on its pages using the presentation settings.  They handle the creation of the actual controls that Sitecore will use for rendering and allow for the Sitecore rendering engine to be extended.  You can use this mechanism to extend Sitecore by modifying how existing types of rendering work, or by adding your own custom rendering types.  This extension point can be useful for the times where you want to introduce functionality to Sitecore at a solution level; however I would typically recommend that you keep this to low-level functionality rather than high-level functionality, as your logic will be applied to every single rendering of your type in the solution, across all the websites. Continue reading Sitecore Rendering Types