Why I Don’t Like Vista Media Center
I have been using Windows Media Center Edition for over a year now. When Vista Ultimate became available, I immediately upgraded because I was drawn to the improvements...
DotNetNuke
Mono VB.Net Compiles “Hello World”
One of my favorite moments at the last PDC occurred just after a few of us (i.e. Shaun Walker, myself and a couple of other DotNetNuke Core Team...
DotNetNuke Factoid
DotNetNuke forums user odontech has posted an excellent collection of DNN-related links which I am reproducing here: DotNetNuke Factoid Community · A community of over 300,000 members...
Virtual Machines = Developer Productivity
Joe Brinkman made an excellent post today (Repaving in a Virtual World) about the painful experience of dealing with the crapware most computer manufacturers force on us and...
Test Harness for DNN ISearchable
Testing an implementation of the DNN ISearchable interface implementation for a module can be time-consuming and slow if you rely on the DNN search engine indexer to run and...
Speeding-up DNN Module Development
On the DotNetNuke forums today, jstemper posed a question about how to speed up DNN development, specifically, the delay caused by app re-start when a module is recompiled....
DotNetNuke Module Settings Made Simple
If you create enough DotNetNuke modules, you will soon notice that you repeat code to retrieve and store settings. I got fed-up with this and wrote a common...
SSO with DotNetNuke 4.x
Starting with DotNetNuke v3.3/4.3, all dependencies on the Microsoft MemberRole assembly were removed. DotNetNuke includes a Role Provider, a Profile Provider and a Member Provider that works directly...
“My Modules” for DNN4?
I have had several emails from people inquiring whether I would be releasing a My Modules version for DNN4. The answer is "Yes." I'm trying to decide if...
Global module settings in DotNetNuke
It’s easy to persist settings for an instance of DotNetNuke modules using ModuleController.GetModuleSettings(moduleId). But sometimes you want module settings to apply to all instances of a module within...