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NOTE: This post has been superceded by the Sitefinity Toolkit whcih contains a search provider for news, events, and generic content items. This post remains for reference only.

Sitefinity has a very useful search-indexing feature that works pretty much out-of-the-box to index pages, blogs and news. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any built-in provider for indexing events. Since I've changed the 404 page to include search results, I want to also include upcoming events in those results, just in case a date has changed or something.

This option may be available after the next release, but as of version ...

One of the more interesting challenges I've encountered with Sitefinity has been how to handle error pages, specifically the 404 error that should be returned if a page is not found. Sitefinity uses the built in ASP.NET error handling mechanism, which allows you to redirect to a specific page based on the error code returned by the server. This means if a page is not found, you can catch that 404 error, and redirect to a custom 404 page informing the user of the error while avoiding the dreaded yellow screen of death.

Unfortunately, since the 404 error was trapped, ...