The following is a step-by-step tutorial that will show you how to display a list of news items (CMS.News documents) using the CMSRepeater control:

 

1. Create a new Web form somewhere in your website installation directory.

 

2. Switch to its Design tab, drag and drop a CMSRepeater control from the toolbox onto the form and set its following properties:

 

•ClassNames: cms.news

•OrderBy: NewsReleaseDate DESC

•TransformationName: cms.news.preview

•SelectedItemTransformationName: cms.news.default

 

This tells the control which document types to read, sets the OrderBy value and assigns the transformations that should be used to display the news items.

 

3. Switch to the Source tab. The code of the CMSRepeater control should look like this:

 

 

It's not necessary to define the standard ItemTemplate elements of the Repeater control since the transformation names have already been specified.

 

4. Save the changes to the web form. Now right-click it in the Solution explorer and select View in Browser. The resulting page should display a list like this: