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DNN has been Azure compatible since version 6.0, when a concerted effort was made to make sure that all the underlying core DNN database code was made compatible with SQL Azure. This early foray into hosting DNN sites on Azure was further improved with the release of the DNN Azure Accelerator, which started with DNN 6 and continues to the current day.
There is an increased need for verifying DNN Extensions for Azure compatibility, and this blog entry discusses the new <azureCompatible> element being introduced for DNN 7.1.
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Earlier this year I spoke at the Southern Fried DotNetNuke event and one of the most popular of my talks was "Developing Enterprise Solutions with DotNetNuke." Now that we have one of the final hurdles cleared from an implementation perspective in this post, and future ones I will start to share all of the details that I have been promising. This post will serve as a launch point for the future parts, as of this point in time I believe this will span 8-10 posts to give everything the proper coverage necessary. As the series grows I will update this post with links to the future sections. So lets get to it!
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The original and best strengths of the DNN platform are how easy it is to create your own content and how easy it is to extend the platform for specific content creation like blogs, forum, e-commerce or anything your imagination can dream up.
Following on from the ease of creating new content is the ease of creating a new skin for sites, to deliver a consistent look and feel for sites in a way that leaves designers free to create compelling experiences for visitors.
The DNN story has always been one of simplicity of use, coupled with the power of extensibility when more customization is required.
DNN 7.1 continues this story when it comes to the URLs of a DNN site. Creating great-looking URLs is part of the DNN 7.1 experience. And the control over URLs does not stop there – those wishing to customize the way URLs look for more advanced functions now have the ability to extend URL behavior beyond the standard DNN handling. The power of having a great standard and easy extensibility now applies to the URL scheme of a site as well.
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Many of you have been asking me about my promised Enterprise DotNetNuke Development blog postings that I have been promising since the Southern Fried DotNetNuke event earlier this year. I have been working on them, but one of the key pieces for me was to figure out how to get NuGet packages to the greater population as I was working locally with a private NuGet Server for my own purposes. I'm happy to be able to note that today DotNetNuke corporation released official NuGet packages to the nuget.org repository and they are freely available for users as of today. In this posting I'll run through the different packages that are available, when you would want to use them, and what versions are available as of this posting.
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This blog post covers the recent updates made to the Extension Verification Service (EVS).
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The humble 404 error – it belongs to a select group of error codes that has risen into the public consciousness. Ask the average web-addict what 404 means and they will tell you ‘something to do with the link not working'. This widespread knowledge is the result of webmasters returning error pages since the beginnings of the world wide web. When a person asks for a URL that doesn’t exist, they need to know that it doesn’t exist – and that’s what the 404 Error Page has always been for. The early users of the web were all well-versed in technical matters such as HTTP response codes, and somehow over time the use of the ‘404’ has stuck.
This post covers the handling of 404 Errors in DNN, how to leverage them and how they work.
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This article is about the use of templates in DotNetNuke modules, specifically the new Blog module. The aim is to provide some background to those interested as to why I chose the templating mechanism that I did. And how it works.
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At the beginning of this year I took it upon myself to rewrite the DNN Blog module. You know, the “official” core version. Why? Well, that will be the subject of another blog post. In this post I just want to talk about a new path I’ve taken in this module with regard to the way it is packaged and instantiated on a page.
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 New Release – Everyone needs a cloud in their life, especially an Azure one, so this release brings Azure compatibility to the Feedback module. Also the release brings some other minor tweaks including improvements to deliver better usability on small screens.
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Periodically, while in the midst of our many projects at DNN Corp., I think about how the Engineering organization is performing. We don’t have a very big team, but we are quite effective despite areas in which we can definitely improve.
How things have changed since I started in tech in 1977. At that time, we all wanted development centralized. We had email for communications and multi-user systems which enabled concurrent access to code, specs, and tests. However, white-boarding was not yet in vogue, nor were convenient online meeting rooms, and VoIP services for low-cost calling and more. We had to relocate smart engineers or create local offices to enable their integration into the company.
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