Page Rating example using Page Objects

At the EPiServer Techforum in Oslo last week, I showed a quick and dirty page rating feature for CMS 6 using Page Objects and Dynamic Content. The source code for that can be found here .

The project consists of 3 class:

1. The Rating object. This is the Page Object that holds the rating data for the page
2. The RatingDC which provides the IDynamicContent implementation
3. The RatingControl which is the Dynamic Content User Interface control.

To test it out, copy the Rating assembly dll to a CMS RC1 site’s bin folder. Create a Rating folder under the site root folder and then copy the RatingControl.ascx to that. Under that folder create a folder called Images. To that folder copy the star.png file.

You will then need to register the Dynamic Content in the site’s episerver.config file as shown below:

<dynamicContent>
    <controls>
        <add description="Displays a Rating facility" name="Rating" type="EPiServer.Samples.RatingDC, Rating" />
    </controls>
</dynamicContent>