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Another config file (check for /config/Dashboard.config) that can be found in the /config folder of umbraco is the xslExtensions.config.

This file can be used to setup custom xslt extensions.

If you are not familiar with xslt extensions here is a brief intro:

With xslt extensions you can call static .net methods from xslt.

When editing an xslt file and inserting a value.

A couple of months ago I did a blog post about Creating custom datatypes using the umbraco usercontrol wrapper , I mentioned in that post that there was also an other way of creating a custom datatype. So in this post I’ll try to show you how to create a datatype using the 3 classes way. One of the main differences between this approach and the wrapper is that you’ll be able to have settings for your datatype.