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Dotnetnuke - Many Bruises, Little Progress

Apr 1

Written by: jbonnie
Friday, April 01, 2005 8:50:28 AM 

Writing a custom module in Dotnetnuke has proved to be very painful.
Perhaps this is a difficult time to jump in with the transition from DNN 2.x to 3.x. Many of the articles and how to guides are written in 2.x and some of the new features are making it difficult (at least that's my excuse).

Great sites, like dnn jungles wizards have also clouded the picture. I wish that I never found that site and would have started coding by hand. The wizards mask some of the details and make it difficult when things go wrong.

The next thing to rant on is Visual Studio. I hate to complain, but VS 2003 has caused me to lose countless hours as well. To speed things up, I disabled compilation of the all of the DNN projects, except for buildsupport on my new custom modules. Big mistake! Some of the other DLL's must have gotten corrupted and started causing wierd errors. I looked at my code (or the dnn jungle generated code!) for hours trying to correct problems (that did not exist). I added the dontnetnuke project back in the build for a test and all of the errors went away. Strange!!!

And then there are the errors caused by the web cache!!! When the answer to a problem is close Visual Studio, delete the web cache and try again Microsoft has big problems. They own the whole environment!!! Can't they play well with themsleves(!!!).

Boy that feels better, now back to that custom DNN module.

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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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