Jim Bonnie's Blog

Author: jbonnie Created: Saturday, March 17, 2007 10:09:43 PM
This is my first Blog. I intend to use it to trace my adventures with Coding, Dotnet, Dotnetnuke, and Golf

DNN 4.3.4 was used to deploy a new website called www.moneco-ct.com.
The site is being hosted on websecurestores. This is my first time using them compared to webhost4life.com. it will be interesting to compare the support and performance between the two sites.

Migrating databases between production and development machines can be a challenge at times.I just ran into another complication for user accounts.When migrating databases, you probably are migrating the database and security information contained in it. You may not have the same users defined at the top level database level.If you simply try to create database users with the same names, you will run into problems. The new top level users will not have the same internal ID as the user defined in the moved database.Microsoft has a KB article on this, that shows how to migrate the database users along with the databases, the article for SQL 2005 is at How to transfer the logins and the passwords between instances of SQL Server 2005The KISS method for smaller development shops, is to just use different login names.After migrating the database, simply add a username to the moved database that already exists on the machine and you will...

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I am using the brute force method of chaning the eventlog tables collation to the database default.
1) open the database with sql server management studio
2) expand, drilldown to the columns for the table in question
3) right click modify the columns that are are characters
4) go to extended properties and ensure the collation is set to database_default

This could be done with a T_SQL script, but brute force works for now...

Here is a screen print for the modify screen.

- Jim


I am having trouble finding the download to the sample project for the DNN ClientAPI.
There are a lot of cool things with client callbacks and passing variables demo'ed.

I am logged into dotnetnuke and my screen appears as below.

Where should I look for the sample download project ??

Thanks for any help on finding it!!

Guess what happened on the way back from the simple transfer procedure from my ISP to my local development box. You guessed it, some new features added to DNN (or our modules) are causing some SQL Server Collation settings at the column level, which caused a conflict when moving the DB to another SQL host.I got the following error when calling up the DNN Log viewer,Cannot resolve the collation conflict between "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS" and "Latin1_General_CI_AI" in the equal to operation.I found these scripts that can help get things working again.This first script will show you the Collation settings for your DB, Server, and TempDB.Modify the DNNDB as appropiate. SELECT



DATABASEPROPERTYEX( 'DNNDB' , 'Collation' ) AS DotNetNukeDB_Collation,

DATABASEPROPERTYEX( 'tempdb' , 'Collation' ) AS TempDB_Collation,

SERVERPROPERTY( 'Collation' ) AS Server_Default_CollationIf these are different then you can have a problem.This problem manifested after porting the production system locally...

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This is a quick overview of how Virtualearth can be integrated into Dotnetnuke

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The Virtual Earth module stopped working when Microsoft removed support for version2. I have created a new DNN module to support VE3 and it is on the site. The bird's eye view and control panel are pretty sweet. A number of module enhancements are required before release

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The DNN 4.3.1 Patch set is out - Installed cleanly, fixes cacheing for the documents module, but still an issue with filtering by column (there is a work around).

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  I installed DNN 4.03 on a dev box and was excited to see the new Documents module.
But there appears to be some bugs!
I installed the DNN 4.03 from Source, but did not run visual studio to do a build, this could be the issue. Off to try the install the package....

The following steps should be enough to move your application locally from a host, before database backups became a pain!

1) copy all of your application files and folders from the host to a local directory, for example to c:\backupsites\ws\30apr06

2) Create an IIS entry for a new web application and point it to your directory created in step 1 - for example, localhost\ws30apr06

3) ensure the appropriate ASPNET application has security rights to the directory created in 1

4)  backup your production database and restore it locally

5) Create a local user to access the  local database

6) Change the web.config file to point to the new local database

7) Change the portalalias table entry in your local db for your main site to localhost\ws30apr06 

8) call up the site created in step 2 localhost\ws30apr06  in a browser and cross your fingers

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About Me

Thanks for stopping by. My name is Jim Bonnie and I have been writing software for over 20 years. After building financial data systems for Reuters for nearly 18 years I have started doing contract work and am excited about technology and currently focus on Microsoft solutions. DotNetNuke has helped provide a good introduction to ASP.NET web application development, and I am now starting to branch out into other areas. Data Access techniques and SubSonic is something that I am looking into now. This has helped me get an invitation to speak at Las Vegas at DNN Open Force 07. it was a great time. And I am looking forward to OpenForce08, where I wil be presenting on TDD for DNN.

 

Reading the codebetter blogs and attending a nothing but .net training class with JP Boodhoo helped spark my interest in ALT.NET. I attended the first conference in Austin Texas, and it was amazing to see Scott Guthrie introduce the ASP.NET MVC framework.

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