I mentioned in my last blog that I planned on publishing a video that would give an overview of how the Silverlight...

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I finally was able to get the multi-project template functionality working to enable the easy creation of a DotNetNuke Silverlight module.  The sample demonstrates how easy it is to have Silverlight interact with javascript, which in turn can talk directly to your server-side module code.  Unlike the other module templates, this one requires the creation two projects, one for your DNN module and one to host your Silverlight code.  Upon compilation, the Silverlight code gets zipped up into a file with a XAP extension. ...

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I am pleased to announce the availability of a new DotNetNuke...

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Last post in this series we learned some basics of MSBuild, including the use of 3rd party tasks.  We saw that by simply importing some other targets file we can extend the functionality available to our scripting language.  The last two pieces to this puzzle happen to be solved by use of 3rd party plugins available on CodePlex:  Deployment and Automating our Build.

Deployment

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I've been working on a project for a client recently and was bitten by a bug recently.  It has to do with using the Microsoft AJAX Extensions, specifically, the JavascriptSerializer.  Our use of JSON is simply as an easy way to serialize our objects, whether it be to disk or across the wire.  What was happening is objects that contained dates would get their time shifted when they reached the other...

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Last post I went through the basics of what you do to set up your project on CodePlex along with how to hook into the source control.  This blog will explain what I did for my build script.  Specifically, how I handled versioning and packaging.

Most developers when confronted with a mundane task that is continually repeated will be compelled to automate it.  We are programmers after all, we enjoy making the computer making our lives easier.  One of these tasks is the creation of a software package to hand...

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I figured it may help some people to share my experience with getting my two projects (DotNetNuke ClientAPI and DotNetNuke WebControls) up on CodePlex and allowing them to be do automatic nightly builds.  The one thing I want to make clear before I start is that this is just one of many ways to do it. 

In order to successfully get nightly builds to work...

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Those of you who have been following my previous blog entries on Utilizing the Microsoft AJAX Framework and ClientAPI to Develop Rich Modules will be happy to learn that I have just posted the module templates on CodePlex. Unlike the previous version, this one utilizes the IWizard Template wizard framework...

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As mentioned in Part II of this series, this entry will focus on another advantage of writing rich client side objects representing our modules on the client side.  One very common use case that comes up again and again is how can one module talk to another on the same page.  For a long time DotNetNuke had this capability from the server side through something called...

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In part one of this series I mentioned that the Microsoft AJAX Framework along with the ClientAPI are different than a lot of other javascript frameworks since they allow for an end-to-end integration directly with .NET.  This entry will discuss how the this integration makes life easier for a DotNetNuke module developer by allowing communication to and from the server to be simple.  

The Microsoft AJAX Framework allows for server-side code to add a reference to the js file, initialize the client-side...

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