For this point release, we focused on stabilising by fixing a small number of bugs that popped up, sometimes as a result of new versions of DNN.

In March of this year I made some blog posts about my intentions with FAQ and I have (or I should say, we have, since Torsten Weggen joined the FAQ team) reached a serious new target: a complete conversion to C# and some major enhancements. The result: FAQ 05.00.00, which available for download on CodePlex.

 

The Events team is proud to announce that Events 05.02.01 has been released. Events 05.02.01 will work for any DNN version 5.5.0 and up. The downloads can be found on the Events Project page on CodePlex.

 

A release update for FAQ: 04.05.01 A long time there was no DNN FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) module coordinator. The result: no new release since May 2007. At the start of March 2011, I decided to pick up FAQ and give it a boost. I made some blog posts about my intentions and quickly released an updated version (04.05.00). Based on feedback from users (thank you!), I fixed some small issues and brought some additional enhancements. The result: FAQ 04.05.01, which passed through the DNN Release tracker...

The Events team is proud to announce that Events 05.02.00 has been released.

For this version, more than 50 issues were covered. A detailed list of these issues involved can be found on CodePlex. The For the record, I will note a some major enhancements here.

Major enhancement: templated list view A long term request: "Please enable the list view to be templateable". We finally did! This required the complete...

In the last few weeks I have been busy trying to get the performance of our DNN based company website (www.xcess.nl) better. I was triggered by a tweet from Salaro with a reference to a blog on IIS settings to improve caching and performance in general. I was also triggered by the fact that there are issues in some cases with DNN 5.6.x, that will not allow to use http compression from the host setting.

As a reference, I used Google online PageSpeed...

A long time (4 years!) there was no DNN FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) module coordinator. The result: no new release since March2007!

At the start of March 2011, I decided, for several reasons, to pick up FAQ and give it a boost. And the first results is visible: a new release of FAQ available for download on CodePlex.

My objective for this first FAQ release after 4 years was to:

migrate the solution...

Last week I created a blog about my intention to pick up DNN FAQ and make that as an example for a session during http://www.web-connections.eu (Day of DotNetNuke Europe) on Jun 16-18 in Hamburg Germany. FAQ is a standard core module that did not get any attention in the last 4 years, by lack of a team. I want to illustrate how you...

In June 2011 there will be a Day Of DotNetNuke Europe in Hamburg, Germany. I have submitted several session proposals, one of them a session on how to apply the Telerik controls in order to improve User eXperience (UX) of any DNN module that you have created. For the DNN Events module (for which I am team lead), we are currently busy on a new version that has the first implementation of Telerik controls in place. I could have used Events as an example, but this is a complex module, which makes it difficult to illustrate the advantages and the how-to of Telerik controls.

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THANK YOU, Event downloaders and users! The Events module on Codeplex reached the 100.000 download mark on Christmas night! That was a very nice Christmas present for all members of the team. Have a look at dnnevents.codeplex.com/stats and...

The Events module is a very popular module for lot of DNN users. The current Events team (essentially Roger Selwyn and myself) have been working hard in the last years to bring this module up to date, enhancing it, creating new versions, making documentation, provide instructions, and (especially Roger) answering a mega load of questions from users and when they were posted in the Events forum. The activities of the Events team was rewarded by recognition of the DNN community and sometimes by compliments...

The DNN Events module seem to be popular over the years.  This can be seen from the # of downloads that is available on CodePlex, if you select the complete project lifetime.

The Events project team has been actively releasing new versions of Events 2 or 3 times a year, over the past 3 years, improving functionality, solving bugs, adding features and hardening the table...

The Events team is proud to announce that Events 05.01.05 has been released.

The objective of this Events release is to fix every known bug of the previous 05.01.04 release. There were a few small issues, in "corners" of the module under special conditions. And we have fixed or circumvented those. We believe we have produced a very stable release, install it on your site let your events happen!

This new release covers 14 issues. Events 05.01.05 will work for any DNN version 5.2.0 and up. A complete...

The DNN Events core module is a popular module from the forge. The cumulative download counter for Events module (all time downloads) is nearly reaching the mark of 100.000 downloads!

A couple times we were asked if there is more detailed technical documentation available for the Events module. In order to provide an answer, I spend this weekend time to create 2 documentation files for the upcoming release of Events, version 5.1.5.:

• A MSDN style help file with the Events API
• A Word document which list all the Events tables, indexes, relationships, Primary and Foreign keys

You will find these files in the download section of Events on CodePlex.

In a number of my blogs here on DNN.com, I talked about the achievements of the DNN Reference team. I illustrated the creation of a MSDN style help file for the DNN core API, and the fact that the help file is now an integral part of a DNN release.

In this blog, I invite YOU to be of assistance to every DNN developer, including yourself! Please read on.

In the first part of this blog, I illustrated the creation of a MSDN style help file for the DNN core API, and the fact that the help file is now an integral part of a DNN release. In the second part I illustrated what has been achieved for the DNN 5.5 release. In this last part of this blog cycle, I will explain how YOU can be of assistance to every DNN  developer, including yourself!

The release release of DotNetNuke 5.5. marks a serious new version. Part of the changes involves a serious change in the core table structure of DNN. If you are using a version of Events in DNN 5.5, you must upgrade Events to version 5.1.4. This Events version is included in the Upgrade & Install packages of DNN 5.5.

 

Just go to Host > Extensions > Install Available Extension and install Events 5.1.4!

In the first part of this blog, I illustrated the creation of a MSDN style help file for the DNN core API, and the fact that the .chm help file is now an integral part of a DNN release. In this part I will illustrate what has been achieved for the DNN 5.5 release. In the last part of this blog cycle, I will explain what can of will be done in the future.

We (the people at my company XCESS) use DNN for almost 7 years now, mostly for developing custom web applications. A long time I was puzzled by the fact that DNN had a large codebase, but very limited documentation for developers to orientate themselves to reuse the existing DNN code. In other words, use the DNN API.

About 2 years back, I stopped wondering and spend time to create a solution, resulting in a project on CodePlex: the DotNetNuke Developers Help File. This way, I shared our efforts with the DNN community.

The Events team is happy, and we hope you will be as well: there is a new release for the DNN Events module! A lot of things have improved for this version. Some basics (this Events version is for DNN 5.2.x and up, we left DNN 4.x behind), some restructuring and simplifications, and a lot of enhancements.

In the past 2 months I have been working together with Declan Ward (member of the DNN testing team for module releases) to create automatic UI tests for the (next version) of the Events module. And I can confirm that this experience has been very rewarding. Currently we have a set of test scripts that can exercise most parts of the Events module UI and functionality. And this saves a lot of time in probing a new release of Events.

While working in the DNN Reference team, I wanted to create a new version of the MSDN style help file for DNN 5.4.2. This was not a piece of cake. I could not easily reuse my previous Sandcastle project for generating the documentation: the project structure of the SandCastle Hep File Builder GUI (SHFB) has changed significantly. But today I managed to make time available and I extracted API information from the source code comments of the core of DNN version 5.4.2 into .chm format, most notably resulting in a MSDN style help file in 2 formats: stand alone .chm file and website (html) based.

The Events team is proud to announce a beta version of the next release of the Events module: Events 05.01.00. This version has more than 70 issues related to bugs fixes, enhancements and new features.

In the case you are wondering when the next version of Events will be made available and start a beta cycle: please hold your breath for a little more time.

 

Our normal work is to develop custom web application based on DNN. And sometimes, we find little things that helps us to work smarter. This was the case when one of my colleagues (Tim van Leeuwen) found a setting for the web.config that saves us time during development. It might be familiar to you, but since we save time, why shouldn’t we tip you?

The Events team has moved all DNN Events source components to CodePlex, starting with the Events release 05.00.03.

We also started with user documentation, using the CodePlex documentation Wiki.

 

The release tracking process took a lot of time, and we were awaiting a formally release module much earlier. Nevertheless, it is finally available for download as a formal release of the Events module.

The objective of this Events release is to fix all known bugs and improve performance and table structure of the Events module. Upgrading an existing Events module to this version is recommended.

This new release covers 43 issues. Events 05.00.03 will work for any DNN version 4.7.0 and up.

Creating the MSDN style help files for DNN 5.1.2 did involve some work. I could not easily reuse my Sandcastle project: too many changes in projects and solution structure of the DNN source. Nevertheless:I did it again and extracted information from the source code comments of the core of DNN version 5.1.2 into various formats, most notably resulting in a MSDN style help file.

We (the Events project team) are filling in a need: the latest version of Events (05.00.02) has reached the 3.000 download mark today, only 5 weeks after it's release to CodePlex.

The Events module team is proud to announce the release of Events version 05.00.02.