http://community.rainbowportal.net/blogs/jonathans_rainbow_blog/archive/2006/05/31/12263.aspxaction lists are new in 2005, are the little arrows to the right top of a control in the designer, like template editing, and provide the quickest, easiest way to modify properties in the desingerenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.2)http://community.rainbowportal.net/blogs/jonathans_rainbow_blog/archive/2006/05/31/12263.aspx#12297Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:26:48 GMTb5c5565c-83fe-4116-98a0-c7bb06b83fac:12297anantatmanThis is cool stuff, how can we use it for Rainbow?http://community.rainbowportal.net/blogs/jonathans_rainbow_blog/archive/2006/05/31/12263.aspx#12312Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:37:11 GMTb5c5565c-83fe-4116-98a0-c7bb06b83fac:12312JonathanWell, as an example.... the settingstable control could be converted to a server control with designer support. <br>There will also be a few controls in the content api library eventualaly (the controls will come after the api). <br>so for example you could drag and drop a &quot;getItems&quot; control or something like that, and have full designer support to configure it to say... disaply the last 10 items matching category asp.net and client side development. <br>The action lists for a control like this would say... give you a combo &nbsp;box of categories or alists... thigns like that. the designer would also let you design the template and container that wraps the content output for examplke. <br>http://community.rainbowportal.net/blogs/jonathans_rainbow_blog/archive/2006/05/31/12263.aspx#12470Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:33:06 GMTb5c5565c-83fe-4116-98a0-c7bb06b83fac:12470jonathan's blogI have some blogging there on things like providing design time support to your custom controls, codedom, builiding a generic setting objects and client side javascript stuff.