One of the greatest additions to DotNetNuke was the inclusion of a threaded scheduler in DotNetNuke 2.1.1. The scheduler has provided a robust framework for handling many background tasks in DotNetNuke. Even though the scheduler was added to the framework two years ago, it has not seen widespread adoption by the module developer community due to a couple of major shortcomings...

The seminar will cover the following topics: Utilizing the Windows hosting product line including SQL Server™ 2005, Windows SharePoint® Services, and ASP.NET 2.0, as well as third-party applications such as Perpetual Motion® DotNetNuke, Community Server®, SWSoft® Plesk 7.5 and SiteBuilder 3.0, and Ensim® Pro and Unify.

Michael Washington blogged about this subject earlier in the week and I would like to provide some more detail on how Web Application Projects will impact DotNetNuke.

Way back in September 2005, we had a variety of meetings with Microsoft to discuss the complications of migrating DotNetNuke from ASP.NET 1.1 to ASP.NET 2.0. During these discussions we identified a variety of use cases which were not possible using the *new* ASP.NET 2.0 project model. Some of these use cases were critically important to...

A couple months back the core team was going over some of the excellent enhancements Charles was working on for the 3.3/4.1 release. One of those pages offered the ability to customize the user properties, including the order in which they were displayed. The traditional method for reordering a list was implemented, meaning the use of postbacks. I was tasked with coming up with a better way to accomplish this without requiring postbacks.

This issue is making me a little crazy (I know a personal problem :).

I see a lot of posts from developers who are hoping the new Web Application Projects will solve a perceived problem with the current dynamic compilation model.

Under the current dynamic compilation model, a DotNetNuke module resides in 2 directories:

The Web User Controls and their associated code behind...

I spent some time last week in the Netherlands at the Software Development Conference 2006. This event was hosted by the Software Development Network and featured 10 different tracks with 10 sessions in each track. The SDN has long been successful in attracting world class speakers to their conference and this year was no exception, with names like Mark Miller, Stephen Forte, Michelle Leroux Bustamante, Richard Campbell, Carl Franklin,...

Scott Hanselman recently posted a blog entry seeking a senior developer to work at Corillian. His post has some pretty specific requirements about the knowledge needed by a potential applicant.  Scott made a comment that some people find his requirements to be too difficult or totally irrelevant.  Jeff Atwood talks about the flip side of this coin which is stupid interview tests.

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A big Thank You to the Dutch DNN user group that organized a complete DotnetNuke track at the Software Developer Conference at Arnhem...

The first day is finish and the second has just begun!

I just posted a beta of the new FAQ module on the project page. Highlights include AJAX capabilities, categories, viewCount, paging, sorting, templating and a few other minor details.

The next gallery version needs to be talked about in public. I hope that with this communication it will ease some of the frustrations of the community who use this module. I also want to state at this time the next version wil require DotNetNuke Core 3.3 or 4.1 or greater. We are too much into this version to be able to back out of the dependancy on 3.3. The reason is the core file server/manager integration.  

Gallery Version 03.20.05:

This will be released probably towards the end of June. (We...

Currently DNN framework does not provide an option to ensure the compatibility of the module and the DNN version it is installed on. This can lead into serious problems, as users often cannot downgrade. We found one solution, how to prevent the database from being altered ...

*** Note: This is not a DotNetNuke vulnerability, the issue exists in modules developed by an independant developer, www.dnn-modules.com ***

User Defined Table 3.3.0 will come with a bunch of new features: new data types, extended permission set, expressions, enhanced grid and new XSL rendering. There is only one downer: it will require DNN 3.3/4.1 ...

June 2006 update - Since there is a MySQL provider available commercially, I am not working on the MySQL provider at this time.

First, let me warn you that we are AT LEAST 6 months away from having a DotNetNuke MySQL provider. This is just a blog to say that I have started working on it and to show you what I have learned so far (in case you want to follow along :)

Let me say, I am really impressed with MySQL. I was able to install it easily on my Windows XP machine and get it running in about an hour. I am a long time MS SQL user and was very frustrated with trying to use Oracle and Firebird. I realize the problem is that I am spoiled from MS SQL server, but hey I'm busy and I like easy to use tools :)

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I have been reading Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler and came across a statment from Chapter 8 that seemed rather ironic. "Magic numbers, numbers with special meaning, have long been a problem. I remember being told in my earliest programming days not to use them." To me, this statement does not go far enough. I believe that magic strings are equally odious...