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Dec 26

Written by: jbonnie
Monday, December 26, 2005 1:04:43 PM 

Had a quick run with the starter kit for dotnetnuke and it went pretty well.
There was a hick up or two.

1. Downloaded the latest 4.02 variants
2. Read the installation guide and decided to use the starter kit to build the site
3. Installed the starter kit and used the new option for a new DNN website
4. The welcome menu is very nice with detailed instructions on the next steps
5. I decided to create a SQL Server 2005 DB using standard edition - Instructions were provided, nice job Charles!
6. The release config file even had commented out connection strings to use
7. Fired up the build and let the script go - The DNN logo image was not displayed properly
8. The install went cleanly and there were no errors - but when calling up the new portal, none of the modules displayed, instead each had an error
9. I clicked on the login page and then the webdev.webserver crashed!!!
10. Did another build and run from VS 2005 and then the site came up ok....
11. Oy yea - VS2005 showed 11 Warnings, and 90 messages - but no errors - so I guess it is ok.

Looking good - next step is to check out the custom module template... 

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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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