If anyone needs me, I'll be in my cave for the next couple of days.

Ok, I'll admit, I'm ignorant, but interested. This isn't the first time I've come across folks that are excited about DNN. I've read the site and the "What's DNN?" section. That description is quite vague in my opinion and it's hard for me to discern a practical use for this in everyday business software.

Can someone please enlighten me?

alexdresko wrote:

If anyone needs me, I'll be in my cave for the next couple of days.

billb wrote:

Ok, I'll admit, I'm ignorant, but interested. This isn't the first time I've come across folks that are excited about DNN. I've read the site and the "What's DNN?" section. That description is quite vague in my opinion and it's hard for me to discern a practical use for this in everyday business software.

Can someone please enlighten me?

alexdresko wrote:

If anyone needs me, I'll be in my cave for the next couple of days.

Well, the first place to start is the newly redesigned www.dotnetnuke.com (The new logo/branding is much more 2005).

Here are some really useful links:

Product Overview Video (third one down) - http://www.dotnetnuke.com/About/TrainingVideos/tabid/810/Default.aspx

Guided Tour - http://www.dotnetnuke.com/guidedtour/

Next I would suggest that you try installing DNN to your local machine (assuming you have IIS). It's really very easy, as the installation documentation has been greatly improved as of the most recent release.

Let me know if you have any other DNN questions. I'm rather involved with the project already anyway.

ive got a question about dnn. why is it so hard to find a punch list of new features available in each new release?

where do I need to look to find this out?

Is there any documentation on how to integrate c# modules with this newer version of DNN? A quick google search revealed nothing.

thanks

lyndon_h wrote:

Is there any documentation on how to integrate c# modules with this newer version of DNN? A quick google search revealed nothing.

thanks

Heh, I may not know much about databases, but I know a lot about DNN. In fact, I build custom modules with c# all day long. That's the beauty of .NET. You could write modules in Pascal if you wanted to. And yes, LLBLGen works perfectly fine with DNN, though if everyone starts doing that we'll have to agree to keep our references to LLBLGen up to date to prevent versioning conflicts.

There is a module developers guide that explains things pretty well. To make life just a bit easier, I would also suggest downloading "My Modules" from this page: http://blogs.speerio.net/peerio/PermaLink,guid,97eed021-cef7-4f4b-873a-45c599687c16.aspx

That should get you started. Let me know if you have any questions related to c# modules, though it's almost identical to developing a module in vb.net

OH AND ONE MORE THING. Since it's easiest to create a new module as a class library instead of a web project, you might want to look at this too: http://www.peterprovost.org/archive/2003/08/15/734.aspx. Basically, the modifications explained here allow you to add Web-based project items to a class-based project.

Devildog74 wrote:

ive got a question about dnn. why is it so hard to find a punch list of new features available in each new release?

where do I need to look to find this out?

The best place to see this type of stuff is through the bug/feature tracking software (Gemini) located at http://support.dotnetnuke.com. You can list enhancements only if that's what you want to see.

Thanks for all the good info Alex. I really appreciate it. I'm going to take a look at dnn this week.

lyndon