Developer's Guide

Learn how to get the most out of Adxstudio Portals, using its powerful APIs and developer extensibility.

Getting Started with Development

This section will cover a range of How-To's meant to help developers get started using Adxstudio Portals for custom web development.

Creating A Starter Web Application Project Portal Master Page Setup Adding A Page Template Basic Content Sets Begin Custom Development in Code Behind Quick Start

Web Controls

Adxstudio Portals contains several web controls that can be added to a page template within Visual Studio.

Property Control CrmEntityDataSource CrmHyperLink Snippet Control WebLinks Control CrmMetadataDataSource CrmSiteMapChildView CrmDataSource Comments Control Ratings Control Ad Placements Poll Placements CrmEntityFormView SavedQueryDataSource CrmEntityListView

Security

Articles that cover the many security-related topics developers using Adxstudio Portals will need to be concerned with.

ASP.NET Identity Authentication Using the Membership Provider Setup Live ID Authentication (Portals 5.0) Azure AppFabric ACS Authentication (Portals 5.0)

Windows Azure

This material in this section provides information regarding the use of Windows Azure with Adxstudio Portals.

Windows Azure Portal Deployment Search in Windows Azure Deployment Azure Storage Creating and Adding Certificates for an Azure Role Dynamically Install an SMTP Server in Windows Azure Cache Invalidation Using Windows Azure Inter-Role Communication Windows Azure CDN for Content Caching (4.1)

Cache

Articles related to caching.

Web Notifications Manual Portal Cache Invalidation to Refresh Changes Tracing Cache Items Cache Invalidation in a Load Balanced Network (Web Farm)

Search

Search and find important data quickly across portal fields and content entities using the convenient, integrated search tool.

Customize Search

Knowledge Base

General Articles about custom web development using Adxstudio Portals.  Feature-specific articles and various how-to's will be found here.

CRM Connection String Format CrmSvcUtil.exe Using Site Settings Using Expressions Adding the Inline Editor to a Portal LINQ to CRM Plugin Development Using Site Markers Email Error Notifications Configuring Website Bindings Page Output Cache Configuration reCAPTCHA Upgrading a Microsoft Portal Accelerator to Adxstudio Portals Performance Tuning for Adxstudio Portals SharePoint 2010 Document Management Library Customizations Label Language Translations Web Form Developer's Guide CMS Replication & Multilingual/Multi-Regional Websites Cache Invalidation Using the Windows Azure Service Bus Forums Custom HTML Sanitization Transient Fault Handling Organization Service Authentication required when opening Microsoft Office files in the Portal Adding a Dropdown Menu to Primary Navigation Display Annotation (Note) File Attachments Customize the URL Provider Working with Option Sets ASP.NET MVC Support SavedQueryColumnsGenerator Website Bindings for Development Enable Detailed Errors on the Organization Service System.IO.FileLoadException Customize the Security Provider Cross Site Request Forgery Validation Getting an Option Set Value's Label Synchronize Entities By Attribute Mapping Slow performance on all pages with out of the box functionality

Archive

This section has developer's guide content that is no longer considered current.

ASP.NET Web Forms and CRM Data Binding (2.x-3.0) Cache Invalidation Using the Windows Azure Service Bus (2.2) Search Configuration (3.0) Connecting ISV Applications and Impersonating CRM Connection String Format (2.0-3.x) CrmMetal.exe (3.x) Cache Invalidation Workflow (2.x-3.0) Adding Events to a Portal Adding Forums to a Portal Using the CrmEntityFormView Control (3.x) Adding Blogs to a Portal Creating a Starter Web Application Project (4.x) Adding Ideas to a Portal Service Context (4.x) PortalGen.exe (was CrmMetal.exe) (4.x) LINQ to CRM (2.2) Using CrmConnection with a Connection String (2.2) Using the Dynamic Entity Wrapper (2.0-2.1)