Brian Dukes, Web Developer : General Software Development

Embedding JavaScript and Other Resources In a .NET Assembly

bdukes — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:21:00 GMT

.csharpcode.embedding-javascript { font-size: small; font-family: consolas, "Courier New", courier, monospace; /*white-space: pre;*/ } pre.csharpcode.embedding-javascript { color: #000; background-color: #fff; } .csharpcode.embedding-javascript pre {...(read more)

Engage: Rotator 2.0

bdukes — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:12:00 GMT

We just released a major update to our DotNetNuke content rotation module, Engage: Rotator. You can read all about the release on my Engage Software blog ....(read more)

Packaging Modules for DotNetNuke 5

bdukes — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:00:00 GMT

We just released Engage: Events , and realized that our DNN 4 compatible package might not work exactly as we'd like when used in DNN 5. If you're a DNN module developer, you probably already know that there have been a ton of changes to the module installer...(read more)

Understanding Module Isolation in DotNetNuke

bdukes — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:55:00 GMT

Also known as "Why Did My Skin Just Change?" and "Why Doesn't NavigateURL work?" When navigating to between controls within your DotNetNuke module, you have many options (and would do well to read Michael Washington's Module Navigation tutorial on the...(read more)

Engage: Employment 1.4 for DotNetNuke

bdukes — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:14:00 GMT

Have you heard of our Engage: Employment module for DotNetNuke ? I'm talking about our module for posting job listings on your website and allowing folks to apply for them. We have today released a new version of the module to fix a number of bugs that...(read more)

Get Module by Module ID in DotNetNuke

bdukes — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:14:00 GMT

When building DotNetNuke modules, a number of times I've run up against the issue of trying to instantiate a ModuleInfo instance with only a module ID. However, the GetModule signature on ModuleController takes both a module ID and a tab ID. In this latest...(read more)

Check your CSS for DotNetNuke 4.9.0

bdukes — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:10:00 GMT

I started on an update to one of our modules for DotNetNuke this week, and was surprised to see many of the administrative pages looked like they had no styles applied to them. Tables were jumbled, with no differentiation between header and or row...(read more)

C# Compiled DotNetNuke Module Template

bdukes — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:15:00 GMT

It shouldn't be hard to get started writing a module for DotNetNuke , but it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of help especially when you are wanting to use C#. At Engage , we have created a Visual Studio project template which will get you started...(read more)

Introducing Engage: Events 1.0

bdukes — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:30:00 GMT

After three public pre-releases, and weeks of wrestling through user-submitted bugs and those we found (so that you don't have to!), we are now ready to release Engage: Events to the eagerly awaiting public! After we cemented our feature-set in the Beta...(read more)

DotNetNuke Site Compile Error: "BC30451: Name 'Initialize' is not declared."

bdukes — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:35:00 GMT

Today was at least the second time that I had seen the above error happen on my local development DNN site. I don't know what happened, maybe I accidentally recompiled the source with something strange in there (though the date on the assembly didn't...(read more)

Navigating with Environmental Variables

bdukes — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:05:00 GMT

As a developer, and specifically as a DotNetNuke developer, there are a number of directories that I have to navigate to regularly. In particular with DotNetNuke, I'm going to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\DotNetNuke\Website\DesktopModules quite a bit. So, instead...(read more)