I wondered if anyone has put together a simple test harness for module development that's publicly available.

It's just that IMHO all the DNN baggage does tend to make building and running modules more cumbersome and time-consuming than it need be for what are often - though admittedly not always - relatively simple Web User Controls.

I'm sure the amount I achieved in a day was significantly greater when I was developing code in straight ASP.NET, before I discovered DNN. That's not to say that DNN does not offer what seem to be considerable advantages, but for development of modules, at least in the early stages, I would have thought a simpler website - faster to build and load - would suffice as host, would it not?