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Create a Simple Orchard Widget in Visual Studio 2012/13

Tags: orchard-cms

Note: this is a work in progress. If you see anything that doesn’t look quite right, please let me know.

High Level Steps

Note: all of these steps are necessary.

  1. codegen module BigFont.DemoModule /IncludeInSolution:true
  2. ContentPartRecord & ContentPart
  3. Build
  4. codegen datamigration BigFont.DemoModule
  5. Handler
  6. Driver
  7. Display Template
  8. Editor Template
  9. Placement.info