• UI for modifying your plugin's settings! No more needing to be on the server to modify the <settings /> element of your plugin's a4t.xml file. From the Tridion Plugins tab of A4T, the View link opens a dialog that allows you to view info about the plugin as well as to configure it.

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  In the previous release, the View link would take you to the plugin view of the Webstore. A new Webstore link was added to the plugin that now does this.

• Custom Context Menus are now available. As Context Menu Extensions (alread supported) allow to extend existing context menus, you can now create a class that extends from Alchemy4Tridion.Plugins.GUI.ConfigurationContextMenuDeclaration, which will allow you to create a new context menu that you can then use in your custom views (such as popups).

• Extended Areas are now supported! Create a class that inherits from Alchemy4Tridion.Plugins.GUI.ConfigurationExtendedAreaExtension to create one of these!

• Constants for the Main Context Menu has been added in Alchemy4Tridion.Plugins.GUI.ConfigurationConstantsContextMenuIds. Use these to target where your context menu extensions can go via the InsertBefore property.

• Working with ASPX views is even easier! No longer do you need to add the <%@ Page %> directive, or the <cc:tridionmanager /> control, or even add a <c:ContextMenu /> for your custom context menus. You can just attach a Resource Group to an aspx page, right from your Resource Group!

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  // add just the filename of your aspx view...
  AttachToView("PopupSample.aspx")
    .SetContextMenu<NewContextMenuSample>(); // and the Type of your ContextMenuDeclaration as the type parameter

  See the GitHub issue for more details.

• For examples, check out the new Big Box of Samples GitHub Project, which currently contains some samples of the new features mentioned above!

For a complete list of changes, view the complete changelog on the GitHub site.

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