A new version of the MSIB +Pack Metadata Control has been made available ... this is not the version supplied in the +Pack.

Improvements are:

• Bug fixes - several bugs that were discovered after the release of version 1.0 have been fixed
• Performance enhancements - the placeholder now uses caching internally and deserializes the xml configuration file to objects to improve the performance of the placeholder in both authoring and presentation mode
• Placeholder designer - the placeholder now has a designer within Visual Studio .NET that loads the configuration file in a shows a template designer the metadata editor within the page
• Support for alternate elements - you can now specify alternate elements for a metadata element within the xml configuration file; at presentation time, additional 'meta' tags will be generated for the alternate elements. Additionally, you can specify a different scheme attribute for these alternate elements.
• Dynamic elements - you can now specify an element as being dynamic, adding a dynamic attribute to the metadata element with a value of true and adding a property attribute with the value of the name of a posting property that should be used as the source of the metadata. You can also add a hidden attribute to these dynamic elements, so they are not shown to web authors in authoring mode
• Metadata type providers - in version 1.0, the choices of entry for a metadata element during author mode was a TextBox or a ListBox. Metadata type providers allow plug-ins to be developed that can provide alternative means of entering metadata during author mode

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