SitefinityOpenAccess and its Integration in

Sitefinity

Alon Rotem

Telerik

Introductions

Alon Rotem

Senior Developer @ TelerikSitefinity SDK & Documentation Team

Telerik Academy

A proud member of the Telerockers rock

band

ContactEmail: alon.rotem@telerik.com

Google+: http://gplus.to/alrotem

Sitefinity’s blogs:

http://www.sitefinity.com/blogs

Personal blog:

http://www.alonintheworld.comIvailo IvanovTelerik ORM Team Lead

Telerik’s OpenAccess blogs:

http://blogs.telerik.com/openaccessteam/

Webinar Overview

The basics: OpenAccess ORMQuick intro

NuGet packages

OpenAccess Samples Kit

Integration with Sitefinity

Fluent-mapping of persistent classes (i.e. code-first)

Next level: Artificial TypesOA Samples Kit Artificial API Demo

Methods.cs methods wrapper

Updating the DB schema

Really Really Advanced Topics / Sitefinity

specific:AgregateMetaDataSource

Multi-Table Entities

Fetch-Plans

The Heavy Webinar Disclaimer

(..and The Game of Thrones is coming!..)

The Basics:OpenAccess ORM & Static Mapping

OpenAccess ORM in a Nutshell-Scripting

Object-Relational Mapper.

Objects Database.

A tool that supports development of data-

oriented software applications.

Supports a fluent API for mapping existing

classes.

Supports construction of a relational model to

map to classes ("model first").

Integrated into Sitefinity and has features

which were explicitly developed for this

integration.Telerik’s OpenAccess team is now an integral part of the Sitefinity

team.

OpenAccess is used by many small-medium projects.

In Sitefinity used to the extreme with heavy scenarios.

Bookmark: Fluent Mapping Documentation

http://www.telerik.com/help/openaccess-orm/fluent-mapping-

overview.html

Bookmark: OpenAccess Samples-Kit

http://www.telerik.com/products/orm/features/

samples-kit.aspx

Showing-Off x2:Object’s fluent mapping demos of (2 for the price

of 1):

In Sitefinity (Products sample)Kickstart from scratch with the NuGet sample package

Demo

Level Complete!

Next Level:Artificial Types

Artificial Types

Dynamically create persisted types.

Create/extend your data layer in runtime:

Add new types.

Add new fields to existing types

Refresh the data model on the fly.

Bookmark:http://www.telerik.com/help/openaccess-orm/fluent-mapping-artificial-types-

overview.html

Artificial Types Sample

Demo

Really Really Advanced

TopicsAgregateMetaDataSource

Multi-Table Entities

Fetch-Plans

AgregateMetaDataSource

Bookmark:http://www.telerik.com/help/openaccess-orm/fluent-mapping-

merging-models-aggregate-metadata-source.html

Combines two or more metadata definitions to

work with one context.

Sitefinity-wise: When extending the static model

with dynamic modules, this feature allows

replacing the metadata at runtime and

continuing to work with the extended context.

Multi-Table Entities

Bookmark:http://www.telerik.com/help/openaccess-orm/fluent-mapping-

mapping-clr-advanced-multi-table-entities.html

Spans persisted objects on multiple database

tables. The objects are implicitly broken-down.

Sitefinity-wise: Feature developed for Sitefinty’s

multilingul support.

Fetch Strategies

Bookmark:http://www.telerik.com/help/openaccess-orm/getting-started-

root-getting-started-with-fetchplans.html

Fetch strategies (i.e. fetch plans, i.e. eager

loading) allow loading persisted objects related

to other fetched objects.

Sitefinity-wise: Used for retrieving only specific

properties of persisted objects.

The Sitefinity Connection

Sitefinity defines mappings and metadata

dynamically at runtime and replaces its

existing context as needed.

Sitefinity’s multilingual modules utilize multi-

table entities in order to store strings in

different cultures in dedicated tables.

In multilingual multi-site mode, where different

sites are associated exclusively with specific

content-cultures, specific fetch-strategies

are used for retrieving only strings in the

specific desired cultures (stored in multiple

tables per persisted content item) on any given

query.

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