Hello!

I am trying to modify a third party module. It's a module to display any child page links on its page. I like to extend the functionality.  It's a source code version. After I installed the module, the module folder looks like this:

First I thought I just had to change the RandomChildLinks.ascx.vb. But It didn't change anything. I googled around and I realized I need to "re-compile" the module (Yeah, I still not sure what that means.). I looked at the "bin" folder and I believed "Shancer.DNN.Modules.RandomChildLinks.dll" is the one I need to work on.

So I editted the RandomChildLinks.ascx.vb, and recompiled the whole DNN. I copied "Shancer.DNN.Modules.RandomChildLinks.dll" from a recompied folder and pasted it on the same place(bin) on the website.  I opened the site on a broswer and nothing was changed.

I read many online tutorials. I was able to make a couple simple modules but I still cannot modify the existing module. I love to write PHP codes and the PHP code is very simple - you write a code and upload the code to the server - DONE. I am trying to learn this new environtment but it has been hard for me.

Can anybody help me out? Thank you!

I see that you have "SuperSimple" installed. Was that one of the modules you were able to build?

The other module is the WAP format. This tutorial might help you:

Using Web Application Projects (WAP)

>>Sam

I was going to email you to ask this question but I decided to ask here first. Thank you for rescuing me here lol. I am developing it under DNN 4.8.4. & VS 2005. (I also could have, VWD 2008 Express, VWD 2005 Express, IIS, SQL server 2005 under Vista if that's easier or neccesary).
I tried to change the code on line 81 (RandomChildLinks.ascx.vb)

newRow("TabName") = "here we go"

I was expecting all the links would say "here we go". But they didn't. I even emptied the randomchildlinks.ascx.vb - it still did display child links. I realized that I was doing something wrong fundmentally.  I hope there is an example how we can edit the existing module, recompile, and overwrite the existing module.

 >>Michael
Hello Michael. Thank you for stopping in this newbies post. Your tutorials are awesome. These helped me a lot.  I like the supersimple module. It was super simple lol. I'll read your application development articles again.

>>Johnny
I must agree with you on that. I kinda understand how MS is trying to make the development environment easier by making everything GUI based.  I think, once I went through the hardest part(like, now), it'll be very easy. However, it wasn't attractive to me at first. That's why it took me a couple years before I decided to make a module. Only reason I am willing to learn this is that I love DNN so much. Otherwise, I wouldn't even touch it lol Go DNN GO :)

By the time enough number of programmers learned this new environment, MS might say "tada! we developped a new programming environment AGAIN!  Yeah, forget the last one. That's old". That's what I am afraid of lol.