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ContentBox Utilities for CF Builder Released!

Luis Majano November 13, 2012

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Luis Majano

November 13, 2012

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We are so proud to announce our first ever Adobe ColdFusion Builder extension: ContentBox Utilities.  This extension will allow you to extend your IDE for ContentBox applications by providing you with:

  • Code Introspection
  • ContentBox helper introspection
  • Layout helper introspection
  • Open and peg site and administrator views from within the IDE
  • Open and peg docs and API docs from within the IDE
  • Generate new widgets
  • Generate new layout themes
  • Generate new modules
  • Install contributions from ForgeBox
  • So much more

 

ContentBox Utilities v1.0 from Luis Majano on Vimeo.

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