DotNetNuke Developer

Learn DotNetNuke Module Development

If you are looking to learn DotNetNuke come to the Capital DNN User's group meeting on Wednesday May 21st. I will be presenting at the user group covering beginning module development using WAP Projects in visual studio. I will be in the Washington area providing some training for a few clients we have in the area.

If you aren't in the Washington DC Area and are interested in learning more about DNN, check out the training classes that we put on at Engage Software. Engage Software provides the best way to learn DotNetNuke in a classroom environment, or through our onsite training.

St. Louis .Net User Group meeting tonight

Somehow I got myself into the speakers role for the .Net user group meeting here in St. Louis tonight! If you have nothing to do and want to learn about Web Application Project module development in DotNetNuke come on out to the meeting. More info available at www.stlnet.org

CMS for DotNetNuke, new release

DotNetNuke Tip: Production using SSL, development not using SSL

Earlier this year I was doing some work on a website of mine that runs on DNN, and has SSL enabled. I copied the database and file system, and set these up on my development machine, Vista Ultimate. I ran into a problem though, I couldn't actually get the site to load, I had all the usual configured properly: a) file permissions b) IIS virtual directory under classic app pool c) database setup and the web.config modified

No matter what I did whenever I tried to access the site I would get an error page saying the site couldn't be found. This didn't make sense, because I had a standard DNN install on my machine and it worked great.

Well tonight I go to working with the site again, intent on figuring out the issue. The site was on 4.6.2 so I upgraded it to 4.8.2, the upgrade actually worked fine, the pages loaded, the scripts ran. So I got to thinking, if it's not the IIS settings it must be something inside of DNN itself, then it struck me. The site was running SSL, a quick check of the Tabs table in the database verified that, so I ran an update script and turned off SSL for all the pages.

Pull up IE7 and hit the site locally and boom, it works!

So here's the tip: If you're pulling down a production site that runs SSL and you're having trouble configuring the site in a test environment, be sure to disable SSL in DNN!

Update: Doh! Michael just pointed out that he posted the same thing back in February! That sure woulda saved me some time. Now, why I missed his post I don't know, it was probably back when the feeds weren't working on dnn.com

OpenForce 08 DotNetNuke Conference, Call for speakers

Joe Brinkman posted the call for speakers for OpenForce 08. Check out his post, then get over to www.openforce08.com to submit your presentation topics (must be logged in to access the page)!

I'll be submitting some of my own as well, I had a blast at OpenForce07 last year.

DotNetNuke Training Day 1

Dare I risk it? I do

As soon as I click post on this blog post I will be clicking "Install" on the windows update screen to install Vista SP1.... Fingers crossed.

Update 1: Cancelled the install, it told me it would take an hour and I wouldn't be able to use my machine during that time. I'm trying to write DotNetNuke Training documentation, so I'll save the SP1 install for another time, perhaps later in the morning.

Update 2: I let the installation run when I went to bed last night, everything appears fine this morning. I noticed a few differences with the RDP windows when i tested to make sure my RDP access still worked, but other than that no noticeable difference with SP1 installed yet. I'll install the latest NVidia drivers tonight and see if SP1 fixed all the issues I've had with those over the past year.

DotNetNuke 4.8.2 Released!

DotNetNuke 4.8.2 released today available for download from www.DotNetNuke.com

There are a few security fixes in this release, and also a fix for the ScriptManager problems, I had blogged about a temporary fix for the script manager errors a few weeks ago.

I'm upgrading all my sites to 4.8.2 this morning. Always remember to back up your site and database before performing any module installs or core upgrades, while 99% of the time everything will work fine, the 1% will really kick your ass if you haven't backed up.

The hounds are active in the asp.net forums!

Wow, tonight I was working on a DNN module and took a little breather by posting in the asp.net forums, thinking I could help a few people out. I haven't posted there in quite a while as I am mostly active over on the forums for www.dotnetnuke.com

I took a look at a few of the unanswered forum posts and posted quick replies, with what I believed to be accurate fixes for the questions they had.

Less than 5 to 10 minutes later there were 3-4 more posts all saying basically the same thing I did. Though, most of them have nice little signatures that say "mark this as an answer if helpful".

Do people only post in the forums anymore to rack up some "points" or what? I guess we do see the same thing over on the dotnetnuke.com forums, people essentially regurgitating someone else's answer from earlier in the thread just to rack up their post counts.

What has this world come to?

DotNetNuke 4.8.1 Released