Hello all,

I am very new to DNN though I've been programming in asp.net for a few years and I'm not understanding how modules behave in DNN. We are using 4.08.04.

I've created a new module in visual studio using the starter kit called TestModule. (File -->  New File --> Dot net nuke dynamic module).

I altered the ViewTestModule.ascx Page_Load fuction to call the following code that displays information about the logged in user:

                DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.OnlineUserInfo mRoles = new DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.OnlineUserInfo();
                DotNetNuke.Security.Roles.RoleController mUserRoles = new DotNetNuke.Security.Roles.RoleController();
                DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserInfo mUser = DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserController.GetCurrentUserInfo();


                string showroles = string.Empty;
                foreach (string i in mUserRoles.GetRolesByUser(mUser.UserID, mRoles.PortalID))
                {
                    showroles += i.ToString() + ",";
                }


                lblTest.Text = "UserName: " + mUser.Username;
                lblTest.Text += "<br> FullName: " + mUser.DisplayName;
                lblTest.Text += "<br> UserID: " + mRoles.UserID.ToString();
                lblTest.Text += "<br> Roles:  " + showroles;

This works fine when I log in as host, the page_load event fires everytime. However if I log out then log in as admin or another user, the page_load event on the user control does not fire. It makes no sense. I tried setting the caching for the module to -1, that didn't help. It seems like the code itself is behaving differently if I'm logged in as "host". Any clues as to what I'm missing here?