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Creating a custom protected module
What kind of extensions are you talking about? If it's only code extensions then standard nuget package is more suitable than a protected addon.
Addons should not have references from your code. They should be stand alone. Use standard nuget package instead if you need that part.
Jun 14, 2016 16:34
By extensions I mean for example an admin part to manage some settings, or a UI panel in edit mode to, or a gadget.
But from what I can hear, I should separate the projects: a NuGet package for the code I want to access, and a zip-file / module to enrich Episerver.
Speaking of the latter; module. How do "they" make them? From what I can see it's just a zip-file with at least a module.config file, and then it's referenced (somehow?) in the web.config:
<episerver.shell> <publicModules rootPath="~/modules/" autoDiscovery="Modules" /> <protectedModules rootPath="~/EPiServer/"> <add name="Shell" /> <add name="CMS" /> <add name="EPiServer.Packaging.UI" /> </protectedModules> </episerver.shell>
So that's what I want to know more about.
/Kristian
Jun 15, 2016 8:35
I did a few of those. It takes a little while to get the first up and running but it's not really hard. You can start by reading the documentation about addons here
The important parts is for protected addons in your case. Hope that helps to get you started. An addon is a nuget package that is easy to install/delete more or less with a few bells and whistles to solve some routing of resources (images/css/js) and similar.
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Jun 15, 2016 9:03
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I would like to create a module for EPiServer and don't know where to begin. I've read some articles here and there, but some seem a little outdated.
What I'm looking to do, is to make a module that i stored in ~/modules/_protected/ - in a zip-file and its assembly is referenced in my project(s), so I can access the code from there.
Think of it as my own little re-usable code. But also as a way to standardize extensions to the CMS UI.
How do I begin?
/Kristian