Custom Context classes

Can you clarify what you mean by "Context class"?

If you mean a 'page' type of object that you can put on the tree and it has a Page Template, etc, then it's just the Custom Page Types,

if it's an actual database class for custom modules, you want to look at Custom Module Classes.

Hey Trevor,

Sorry about that. I meant Context classes such as SiteContext

Thank you,

Ahh, now i track you.

Well a Context class is just a normal Class that has Context specific information. Can you provide a little more details about what type of "Context" you are looking for?

For example, the MembershipContext is really just providing the UserInfo and other objects for the current user (which does a look up on their session / credentials i suppose).

You can extend Info and InfoProviders, but Context and Helpers are just classes Kentico provides to aid you, so you should just be able to create your own classes and use them.

The first step is to modify the signature of the context class. It needs to be a non-static class, inheriting from AbstractContext<T>. It should also have the [RegisterAllProperties] attribute.

[RegisterAllProperties]  
public class StudentContext : AbstractContext<StudentContext> {

The second step is to register the context. It looks like this is done by calling Module.RegisterContext from the OnInit method of a Module. In my case, I used a module called PGPLoaderModule:

public class PGPLoaderModule : Module {
    protected override void OnInit() {
        base.OnInit();

        Module.RegisterContext<StudentContext>("StudentContext");