[wix-devs] WiX Web Site

[Bob Arnson]

1. Nope, that's "front matter" in YAML format. TinySite uses it to control how the document is rendered (e.g., layout).
2. It's a TinySite feature to query data and documents. In this case, it queries the documents generated during the WiX build that describe the build. That becomes a collection that can be iterated on (like the @foreach later in the document). 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-devs [mailto:wix-devs-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of
> Brian Drennan
> Sent: Friday, 12 February, 2016 23:11
> To: wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org
> Subject: [wix-devs] WiX Web Site
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> 
> Just a quick question about the site, because the few times I’ve looked at it
> I’ve been perplexed about something:
> 
> The site has this (raw) content in the releases.html.cshtml document:
> 
> ---
> layout: herosmall
> title: Releases
> subtitle: weekly
> image: /content/red_smoke_4.jpg
> releases?: query documents where sourceRelativeFolder eq
> "documents\releases" descending date take 5
> sidebarTitle: Published releases
> sidebarItems: [
>   { uri: "/releases/v3.10/stable",
>     text: "WiX v3.10.1 (Stable)" },
>   { uri: "/releases/v3.9/stable",
>     text: "WiX v3.9 R2 (Stable)" },
>   { uri: "/releases/v3.8/stable",
>     text: "WiX v3.8 (Stable)" },
>   { uri: "/releases/v3.7/stable",
>     text: "WiX v3.7 (Stable)" },
>   { uri: "/releases/v3.6/stable",
>     text: "WiX v3.6 (Stable)" },
>   { uri: "/releases/v3.5/stable",
>     text: "WiX v3.5 (Stable)" },
>   { uri: "/releases/v3.0/stable",
>     text: "WiX v3.0 (Stable)" },
>   { uri: "/releases/v2.0/stable",
>     text: "WiX v2.0 (Stable)" }
>   ]
> ---
> 
> Is this just markdown? It’s for some reason not being rendered when I run
> tinysite.exe (I re-pulled the source). Am I missing something? My apologies,
> I’m new to web development.
> 
> Also, that releases?: line – looks to me like a LINQ query, but I’ve never seen
> this in a web project previously (in my oh so extensive experience with web
> projects – I do mean that with the utmost sarcasm).
> 
> Sorry if the question is a bit of a newbie one, but we’re officially stretching
> the bounds of any prior experience I can draw from (which is part of why I
> wanted to get involved in the first place).
> 
> Thanks for the help! Hope everyone is having a good new year so far and
> enjoys the weekend!
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Brian Drennan
> 
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