By Vicenç Masanas on 4/16/2008 6:44 PM

Next week I'm presenting DNN as a successfull tool for Web RAD on Madrid and Barcelona thanks to Microsoft Spain. If you're around come by and say hello. It will be an introductiory session on what DNN is but also we'll see some of the new features DNN Cambrian will give us.

More information and registrations: Madrid, Read More »

By Vicenç Masanas on 1/26/2008 10:59 AM

I've been fighthing for long with an issue we have on a quite big installation (75+ portals, 6500+ pages, 11000+ modules).
The issue only manifested when installing some modules and it would cause the application to die because of a timeout, so we were unable to install any new modules.

The problem turned out to be in the way the installer process the .dnn file and how it updates the module information.
Basically it went that way:
- Registe ... Read More »

By Vicenç Masanas on 11/8/2007 5:03 PM

I've just posted the material for the presentations I did both in OpenForce Europe and USA. Get them here. Read More »

By Vicenç Masanas on 8/15/2007 10:34 AM

I've been thinking lately on getting something like the Sony Book Reader. You know with so many informatio ... Read More »

By Vicenç Masanas on 1/10/2007 12:28 AM

There's some misunderstanding on how DotNetNuke Modules are installed and which steps are executed during a module installation or upgrade.
I'll try to cover both scenarios on this post and I hope this helps to get a clearer idea of how this works.

Let's first take a look at what happens when a module is installed:

As you may know all the internal versioning of modules (and even the core itself) ... Read More »

By Vicenç Masanas on 1/9/2007 5:28 PM

DotNetNuke latest 4.4 version contains two new features on the page settings control that helps a lot when maintaining large web sites with subsections where you tend to apply different skins and / or permissions.

On any page, when you go to "Page Settings" you will see a new option below the permissions grid.

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By Vicenç Masanas on 12/3/2006 6:45 PM

Next week, from December 11 to december 15, there's a full week of DNN trainning in Paris. They will cover a lot of interesting items: skinning, the framework, module development, DNN services, security, etc.
I've been invited to give a presentation on the first day and I'm very excited to meet all the people interested in DNN and share our vision and ideas around it.

If you are interested in DNN and want to know a lot more about it this is a great opportunity for y ... Read More »

By Vicenç Masanas on 8/1/2006 9:05 AM

There's a "old" feature in DNN that allows module developers to create their own custom permissions for the modules they are creating. This will allow you to create a module and specify more granular permissions than the default VIEW / EDIT options DotNetNuke provides by default.

Yet a very powerfull feature I've seen this option not being much used. Actually very few module use that.
Why? I think the reason is because of a lack of documentation and examples f ... Read More »

By Vicenç Masanas on 8/1/2006 9:00 AM

A very interesting video from Jason Zander on the new .NET versions (WinFX to .NET 3.0 move) and how they manage all this. Sure this will help clear some misunderstandings on the subject.

By Vicenç Masanas on 6/16/2006 9:00 AM

In pre DNN 3.3 / 4.3 versions we had three different sets of resource files:

• Base resources: these are the english (en-US) resource files that come with the product. These are considered the default and base for all other resources, and the last fallback resort when searching for a given resource string.
• Translated resources: these are any given set of resources for a specific language other than the default one. These ca ... Read More »