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Aug 9

Written by: jbonnie
Thursday, August 09, 2007 9:26:26 PM 

There was a good turn out for Tuesdays talk on DNN and SubSonic. The Stamford based .net user group is doing a great job with the venue and getting the word out.

They also announced that a Code Camp will be held in Stamford at the end of October. At last, I do not need to drive to Boston or Philli.

The Slides are here and the main points of my talk for those that missed it or fell asleep:

  • DotNetNuke is a solid Web Application framework
  • The suggested Data Access layers for Modules is overly complicated
  • Feel free to use your existing Data Access techniques for building DNN modules
  • Subsonic is an excellent alternative for providing your Data Access Layer for DNN Modules if you are looking for something that provides great productivity
  • SubSonic provides the Active Record Pattern for your tables and easy access to your views and stored procedures.
  • SubSonic Scaffolding can easily be added to DNN for a simple admin screen

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4 comment(s) so far...

Re: DNN and SubSonic Talk at Fairfieldwestchester.net

Hey Jim,
nice job on the talk last week. It was a great introduction to 2 really big technologies and certainly helped out with the first round of discovery. I'm sure people walked away with a good sense of whether they wanted to invesigate either one - you gave a good sense of motivation, difficulty, features, and implementation for using either one or both.
A great first visit to the new group for me!

By Todd on   Thursday, August 16, 2007 9:32:58 PM

Re: DNN and SubSonic Talk at Fairfieldwestchester.net

Have you had any luck incorporating Subsonic into a DNN Module without modifying the web.config? I have spent way too much time trying to figure this out instead of just working with it in my module, but the answer still eludes me !

By kennster on   Friday, August 31, 2007 12:14:39 PM

Re: DNN and SubSonic Talk at Fairfieldwestchester.net

The subsonic provider must be loaded and can be loaded via code, the code can be lifted from the subsonic subcommander project.

I would wait until DNN 4.6.0 when updates to web.config will be supported as part of the module installation, or so I understand from a post on the DNN blogs.

If 4.6 does not support, then let's borrow the code from subcommander!

By Jim on   Saturday, September 01, 2007 11:25:14 PM

Re: DNN and SubSonic Talk at Fairfieldwestchester.net

Jim, I need help with subsonic and DNN. I was able to get the scaffolding module working. But I still can't get how to use subsonic as the DAL for a custom module. You can read my unanswered question here:
http://www.subsonicproject.com/forums/thread/support/1814.aspx

Please, any help will be appreciated. Some How to instructions on how to use subsonic as my DAL for modules.

Thanks,

B.

By Bebel on   Thursday, September 13, 2007 8:12:06 AM

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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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