Chris Hammond

The powerful .NETMF on your wrist! Meet the Agent

Chris Hammond — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:16:00 GMT

So if you've been under a rock lately, you might have missed this little phenom known as KickStarter. Well today you're going to want to check it out. Secret Labs, the folks who brought you Netduino (hey, I'm wearing a Netduino t-shirt today, what a coincidence...(read more)

Using SignalR with DotNetNuke Modules

Chris Hammond — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:02:00 GMT

Originally posted on ChrisHammond.com, all comments and discussion on this topic should be done there. This post will provide you with a basic tutorial for utilizing SignalR with custom DotNetNuke Modules. If you want to bypass the blog post go check out the source on GitHub, you can Fork my Repository. The module created here will be very simple, if you want a full blown module with more features be sure to check out the open source DotNetNuke Module SignalRChat, and see it in action at http://dnnCHAT.com/ SignalR is an ASP.NET library for using websockets and long polling in your applications. Basically what this means, is that you can have your web pages (or apps) maintain an open connection with a webserver, passing data back and forth, without having to do standard posts and gets for the content and functions. SignalR is a free library that you can get from www.signalr.net and you can DL from nuget.org right into your Visual Studio projects. ...(read more)

Customizing the latest Module Dev Project Templates

Chris Hammond — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:12:00 GMT

With the 2.0 release of my module development project templates last week I’ve had a few inquiries into how to customize the templates. You can download the templates from http://christoctemplate.codeplex.com/ Why Modify the Templates? First, why might...(read more)

Using the new Module Development Templates for DotNetNuke 7

Chris Hammond — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:12:00 GMT

With the release of DotNetNuke 7.0 (and now the more recent 7.0.2), it was time to update my module development project templates . If you have worked with my module development templates before, here are the major changes for this release. If you haven...(read more)

10 Years of DotNetNuke

Chris Hammond — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 04:54:57 GMT

In case you haven’t heard, today is our birthday! Back on 12/24/2002, Shaun Walker released an open source project he called (at the time) IBuySpy Workshop in the forums here on www.asp.net . IBSW was a project which containers many enhancements to the...(read more)

Weblogs.asp.net has a problem, it is spam

Chris Hammond — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:24:55 GMT

Is anyone at Microsoft listening to the SPAM problem here on Weblogs.asp.net? My “ Can anyone do anything about the spam here on weblogs.asp.net? ” post from October got over 12 spam comments posted to it in the past 24 hours. I have comments all moderated...(read more)

DotNetNuke 7.0 released

Chris Hammond — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:54:52 GMT

It is a big day in the world of DotNetNuke (yes, DNN is still around folks). DNN 7.0 was released today, you can find out more information by visiting DotNetNuke.com Be sure to read Will Morgenweck’s blog post for all the details . For a quick peak into...(read more)

New free DotNetNuke 7.0 Skin

Chris Hammond — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 06:25:02 GMT

With the pending release of DotNetNuke 7, scheduled for this week, I updated my free DotNetNuke (DNN) skin , MultiFunction v1.3 . This latest release requires DotNetNuke 7, it shouldn’t install on an earlier version of DNN. This release updates a number...(read more)

Using jQuery to customize the styles in table cells

Chris Hammond — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:18:19 GMT

Originally posted on ChrisHammond.com I was trying to do some work with the Form and List module in DotNetNuke today and I needed to apply some custom styles to the LIST view of a module, without going in and creating a full XSL template for the module...(read more)

Are you ready to grow that Mo (moustache)? Movember is coming

Chris Hammond — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 19:40:00 GMT

Well here we are, nearing the end of the month of October and coming up on the month of N Movember once again. We here at DNNCorp are in our third year of supporting the Movember cause, growing facial hair on our upper lips to raise awareness and money...(read more)

Can anyone do anything about the spam here on weblogs.asp.net?

Chris Hammond — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 07:20:00 GMT

If there anyone out there who can do something about the spam here on weblogs.asp.net? Perhaps we could get some new software here that we could use to blog with? The old software barely works in Chrome (I can't see the rich text editor at this point...(read more)

New Visual Studio 2012 Project Templates for DotNetNuke

Chris Hammond — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:13:41 GMT

Earlier this month Microsoft put the bits up for Visual Studio 2012 RTM out on MSDN Subscriber downloads, and during the first two weeks of September they will officially be releasing Visual Studio 2012. I started working with VS2012 late in the release...(read more)

New .NETMF 4.2 QFE2 Release, NETDUINO UPGRADES!

Chris Hammond — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:52:03 GMT

Earlier today the latest release of the .NET MicroFramework (v4.2 QFE2) was released over on http://netmf.codeplex.com/ . You might ask, why does a DotNetNuke guy care about that? Toys! Well, I call them toys, they are my toys. I’ve dabbled with Netduino...(read more)

The risks of using hosted resources, hosted jQuery

Chris Hammond — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:09:28 GMT

Long ago when we started shipping jQuery resources with DotNetNuke we began offering a Host Setting which allowed you to use a HOSTED version of the jQuery resources. There are a number of benefits for using the hosted jQuery resources, of which I will...(read more)

Procedure entry point _Atomic_fetch_sub_4 could not be located in the dynamic link library MSVCR110.dll

Chris Hammond — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:58:00 GMT

Recently my Visual Studio 2012 RC installation quit working on my laptop, the whole install is less than two weeks old, but being that VS is currently a release candidate I figured that it probably is just buggy. The problem is I can’t get visual studio...(read more)