FindPagesWithCriteria Gadget

My contribution to the Gadget Contest is a gadget for doing findpageswithcriteria-calls.

I haven’t done asp.net MVC coding before this so it was a new and interesting experience.

Some points of interest – although the introduction to gadgets article talks about extension-methods for htmlhelper-classes it seems like you do not get Intellisense in the views.

Did also experience that the Intellisense was working but the Html-helper wasn’t available.

Screenshot of criteria builder

The magnificent result-view

Some further things which could be added and would be make the gadget more editor friendly:

• Using the Dynamic Data Store to save searches
• Using Reflection (possibly?) to determine the valuetype automatically
• Possibility to select where to start searching
• Validation and friendly feedback for errors

Installation instructions (hope it works for you)

1. add this to web.config

<modules autoDiscovery="Minimal">
    <add name="FindPages">
        <assemblies>
            <add assembly="FindPages"/>
        </assemblies>
    </add>
</modules>

under the episerver.shell tag

2. unpack the zip file to your episerver ctp site, open and build the project

2. add gadget to the page

3. rule the world?