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 ...

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