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Templating

Templates turn Content Manager content into publishable content. A Template contains a sequence of modular chunks called Template Building Blocks. Each Template Building Block performs a specific role in turning the content into published content.

Breaking your template up into a sequence of Template Building Blocks has the advantage that you can more easily modify and extend your Template by reusing existing Template Building Blocks and you can distribute the various Template Building Blocks according to skill set. For example, a Web designer working in Adobe Dreamweaver implements the visualization of the content and a software developer working in Visual Studio implements how to select, organize and process content.

Note that if you use 32-bit COM components inside your .NET templates, your code will fail on a 64-bit operating system. To prevent this, put your COM component in a COM+ app.