Chris Hammond

Getting ready for DotNetNuke Module Development

chris.hammond@dotnetnuke.com — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:21:59 GMT

Tomorrow morning I’ll be delivering one of our free DotNetNuke Explained web seminars, the 4th in our series of 6. This seminar is for Basic Module Development, in which I will show you how to quickly get up and running with custom module development for DotNetNuke.

If you haven’t signed up yet, you still can, go to the registration link. After the web seminar is delivered and posted online that same registration link will allow you to watch the recording.

In order to get up and running with module development it is best to have your module development environment configured. Due to the seminar only being an hour I will be jumping in after my development environment is already setup, but this blog post will point you to the resources necessary to get your own environment setup and running.

Rather than regurgitate information that is already posted, this post will simply point you to the appropriate resources.

We’ve got a thorough page in the DotNetNuke Wiki about Setting Up Your Development Environment. If you would like to try to follow along with the live web seminar, or the recording after the seminar, please first follow the steps outlined in that Wiki entry.

I will have completed all of the above steps on that Wiki page prior to the web seminar tomorrow morning.

Useful Links from Web Seminar

From there, I will do a few things in the webinar, I will refer to these links live, but finding them in the blog post will be helpful to many of you.

I will begin by downloading and installing the MSI for the MSBuild Community Tasks project.

Then I will be downloading and installing the custom C# project template from http://christoctemplate.codeplex.com, you can also find a VB.net version of the template as well.

If you would like to customize the templates prior to use you can find instructions for installing and customizing the project templates on this wiki page. I will not be customizing the template in the seminar.

After template installation I will walk you through the process of creating a project based on the template, the location as to where this project will live, and how it will work within DotNetNuke. We will make a few changes to the project to get it configured for our environment, then step through the process of packaging and installing the module within DotNetNuke.

From there we will actually add some functionality to the module utilizing Module Settings and code in our View and Edit controls.

For another approach to module development be sure to check out the Task Manager series of module development videos on the DotNetNuke Video Library.

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Denver’s DotNetNuke User Group Meeting 3/21/2012

chris.hammond@dotnetnuke.com — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:09:17 GMT

It has been two years since I moved from Denver, CO to San Mateo California to work for DotNetNuke Corporation, (3/1/2010) and I am finally headed back to Colorado! This time I am not staying permanently, though I know very much that I will be tempted to.

I’ll be presenting at the Denver DotNetNuke User’s Group meeting on Wednesday, March 21st, 2012, at 6pm, here is the pertinent info. This is their first meeting since March 2010, though it should be the first of many to come.

Date: 3/21/2012 6pm
Location:
Wellington E. Webb Building.
201 W. Colfax ave. Denver Co 80202
(Conference Room 1.D.1, enter on the Court street side of the building)

Topic: An Introduction to DotNetNuke 6.2 and Using the Journal API
Description: With the forthcoming release of DotNetNuke 6.2 there are a number of changes coming to the platform. Chris will present an overview of some of these changes in the first half of this session, then will spend the latter half of the presentation showing you how your own custom modules and extensions can implement the new Journal API to create a Facebook like effect within your DotNetNuke web site.

Details at http://denver.dnnug.com/news/itemId/44/Jump-start-Denver-DNN-user-group.aspx

I’ll have plenty of DotNetNuke Swag at the meeting to give away, but you need to be there in order to get it!

After the meeting: I’m actually in town all week for DotNetNuke Training for a customer. I am going to stay around through the weekend, if anyone wants to get some snowboarding in let me know! I haven’t hit the slopes since I left Colorado in 2010 and am ready to get back out there.

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Using jQuery popups in DotNetNuke 6

chris.hammond@dotnetnuke.com — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:29:46 GMT

If you follow me on twitter (@christoc) or read my personal blog, facebook, or google+ you likely have seen that I am riding for 100 miles on a bicycle charity in June of this year. If you didn’t know that, check out the Philanthropy page on ChrisHammond.com.

As part of my fund raising efforts for the event I decided to try and use my website a bit more to see if I could raise some additional funds. The website gets a decent amount of search referrals to the site on a daily basis (it should, I’ve been blogging there since July 2004 so it has almost 2600 posts). I had a couple of ways I wanted to utilize the website, the first was as a way to keep track of my fundraising efforts.

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Pushing Pixels in the DotNetNuke Ecosystem Principles of DotNetNuke Skin Design–March 6, 2012 Bay Area User Group

chris.hammond@dotnetnuke.com — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:36:00 GMT

For the March meeting of the Bay Area DotNetNuke User’s Group (3/6/12)at the DotNetNuke World Headquarters Adam Humphrey from Adammer LLC will be presenting “Pushing Pixels in the DotNetNuke Ecosystem Principles of DotNetNuke Skin Design”

You must RSVP via Meetup.com

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Movember 2011 Results for Team DotNetNuke

chris.hammond@dotnetnuke.com — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 05:58:10 GMT

Well another Movember has come and gone, we are now 2+ weeks into December, and I am finally getting the time to get this blog post together. It has been a busy 6 weeks with DotNetNuke World, holidays here in the United States, and planning for 2012 here within the DotNetNuke Corporation.

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Movember 2011 nearing a close

chris.hammond@dotnetnuke.com — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:21:46 GMT

A quick blog post as we near the final day of Movember 2011.

Thank to all of you who have taken the time to grow your fine Mo's (mustaches) for the past 30 days. Also thank you to those of you who started your mo's but caved to the weight that carrying a Mo brings, your efforts are still appreciated!

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Calling all DotNetNuke Partners Grow That Mo!

chris.hammond@dotnetnuke.com — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:24:45 GMT

Do you work for one of our many DotNetNuke Partners? Are you already thinking about participating in Movember? Have I got a challenge for you.

Form a team for your company, you can do so via Movember.com, and then join the DotNetNuke Network! The partner that raises the most money for Movember

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Movember 2011 Get those Mustaches ready

chris.hammond@dotnetnuke.com — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:41:00 GMT

Dear DotNetNuke Community,

Movember is coming up, and I am getting the DotNetNuke Team going again this year. For those of you who weren’t with the company last year Movember is this. You start with a clean shaven face on November 1^st, and grow a mustache (not a beard, not a goatee) for the ENTIRE month, to raise awareness (and money) for cancers that effect men, primarily prostate cancer.

Tags: DotNetNuke,Movember,Charity

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Using jQuery in your content to add some flare to your DotNetNuke website

chris.hammond@dotnetnuke.com — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:59:00 GMT

With all of the changes to DotNetNuke 6, a lot can be lost in the fact that you actually maintain the content of your website, and while the maintenance UI has changed, the content that you present is still up to you. A CMS can only do so much for displaying you content, if you want to do some fancy things, branch out of your standard HTML.

I recently wanted to do a couple of things for my car website (yes, I’m a car guy, so it is easy to use the website for examples).

I wanted to have a random image loaded in the top portion of the pages of the website, changing, or randomly loading, on each page load (not rotating live on the page).
I wanted to display a list of recent photos on the home page, and when you click on one of them I wanted them to open up in a light box.

I could have done this in any number of ways, but I chose to implement some simple jQuery for each, below I will show you how.

First things first, the website uses my free DotNetNuke skin, MultiFunction, available via Codeplex. I have some example documentation on how to customize the CSS for the skin to make your site unique, feel free to check out the Documentation page.

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Using request filters in DotNetNuke to restrict website access

chris.hammond@dotnetnuke.com — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:11:00 GMT

Have you ever had the need to blog a range of IP Addresses from accessing your website? Or perhaps, setup a website that is only accessible to a specific range of IP Addresses? DotNetNuke Request Filters are a great tool for getting such functionality configured, all configurable within your browser, without needing access to the settings in IIS.

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