Thread: How To Extend Core Classes?

I'm finding it impossible to extend core classes, i.e. AspDotNetStorefrontCore.ShoppingCart, to override the inline-coded presentation structure (which is less than optimal and table-based).
I want to override the various methods in the shopping cart in order to implement a proper div-based solution.

How can this be done, seeing that the Core classes are not virtual? The problem with updating the core classes directly is that applying an update becomes impossible without breaking things (which is why I am redoing things in the first place).

Thoughts? Suggestsions?

Here's what I need to accomplish:

The shopping cart in AspDotNetStorefrontCore contains alot of inline html that isn't very maleable, meaning it is extremely hard to customize and is rigid in its presentation. I need to change the html output to be more standards-based, on not restrictive as far as presentation is concerned.

Any thoughts?

I would probably move forward with modifying the core code (just keep good documentation and comment the code well). We are continually working on this and are actively pursuing changes to remove these from the core classes in order to make it more malleable.