Tutorials

1. Getting started

• 1.1 How to set-up a SiteFusion server
  The comprehensive installation guide for the SiteFusion daemon. Including some troubleshooting guidelines.
  
  
• 1.2 Setting up the client
  A short guide to the setup of the client

2. Applications

• 2.1 Hello World!
  Demonstration of a very basic SiteFusion application through the classic Hello World example.
  
  
• 2.2 Basic user interface construction
  The basics of interface elements and their classes, and dynamic constructors. Reading up on XUL itself separately is recommended.
  
  
• 2.3 Events
  The basic driving force behind any interaction between user, client, server and other processes explained.
  
  
• 2.4 Windows and Dialogs
  These make dividing the functionality of an application easier and allow you to write complete subprograms within a window or dialog, as well as just creating one as a vehicle for interface elements.
  
  
• 2.5 Images
  Images in SiteFusion can be used in a few distinct ways.
  

• 2.6 Menus and Popups
  Menu bars, dropdowns, popup menus, tooltips, panels and context menus.
  
  
• 2.7 Trees and XULCustomTree
  Both simple trees built from XUL nodes and complex trees built with the XULCustomTree class. Images, checkboxes and progressmeters, editing, sorting, drag and drop.
  
  
• 2.8 Client-side file handling
  Reading from and writing to client-side files and directories, launching executables and monitoring files for changes, and using the filepicker dialog.
  

3. Services

• 3.1 Services
  The basics of building a service

4. Extensions

• 4.1 Writing a SiteFusion Extension: The Basics (Part I)
  The basics of writing a simple SiteFusion extension, installing it on the client, and creating the required server-side code in order to fire it up.