Entries for September 2007
Recently I was given the opportunity to review and test the Dynamic Registration Module offered by Data Springs Inc. I have to say of the DNN modules that I have reviewed this is one of the better ones out there. I have yet to implement this on a production site yet, but have extensively tested the module and their documentation and it passed with flying colors.
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Posted by Mitchel on Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Recently I have been fielding a number of requests regarding blog linking to Del.icio.us,
Digg, DotNetKicks and a few of the others with Ventrian's News Articles module.
I decided that at this time it would be best for me to go ahead and share this informaiton
publicly so that everyone can benefit. (Not to mention Chad Voller requested
a blog on this topic as well.....) So without futher delay, below is information
regarding adding these social networking links to your blog site.
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Posted by Mitchel on Monday, September 24, 2007
When playing around with DotNetNuke 4.6 I discovered a new feature that can be very
helpful yet that I have not noticed any formal discussion about on the DNN site.
Therefore I am taking the time here to give you a breif overivew of this new function.
The feature I am talking about is the support for tokens wiithin the Text/HTML module.
This new feature provides a MUCH needed enhancement to the Text/HTML Module and
is something that I think many users will find to be very helpful.
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Posted by Mitchel on Friday, September 21, 2007
This article is a revisit to the Windows Live authentication functionality within DotNetNuke that I discussed earlier this week. After creating the inital linking
to my site I found that I was able to setup the link properly and that users were
able to go out to Windows Live, however, they were never able to successfully associate
their Windows Live account to their DNN account on my website. After much
research, and a helpful post from another DNN community member I have found out
how to do it.
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Posted by Mitchel on Friday, September 21, 2007
Part of getting ready for OpenForce '07 involved looking into Visual Studio 2008 and Silverlight. As happens every time I browse new technology I got quickly sidetracked and sumbled upon a Microsoft document that outlines all of the new features with C# 3.0 which will be released with Visual Studio 2008 as part of the .NET 3.0 framework. This article will give you a quick overview of the first thing I found, and honestly one of my favorites overall "Automatically Implemented Properties"
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Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, September 20, 2007
As noted in my previous blog posting I have upgraded this website to be running DotNetNuke 4.6.0. Prior to the upgrade this site was running DNN 4.5.2 and I performed a direct upgrade to 4.6.0. Also as I mentioned in my previous posting the upgrade didn't go all that smooth, with the site being down for almost an hour as I worked out the "bugs" that I identified with the 4.6.0 upgrade. This article will discuss one of the issues that I encountered relating to the Whitespace Filter.
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Posted by Mitchel on Wednesday, September 19, 2007
To those visiting the website this morning I apologize for the downtime, I upgraded the site from DNN 4.5.2 to DNN 4.6.0 and encountered quite a few problems, but it is now up and running!
I have just enabled Windows Live authentication, if there is a desire I can also enable OpenId.
Posted by Mitchel on Tuesday, September 18, 2007
DotNetNuke 4.6.0 provides built in support for the Windows Live and OpenId authentication systems, allowing you more ways to make your site easy for visitors to use. The best part is that DotNetNuke makes it easy for you as a site administrator to enable these login features for your users. This article will talk alittle bit about each authentication system and what is needed for integration, then we will actually implement both in a DNN 4.6 website.
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Posted by Mitchel on Monday, September 17, 2007
In previous articles on this site I have provided tutorials for installing DotNetNuke to a local machine, however, I have never yet approached the topic of installing DotNetNuke to a remote web hosting provider. I have been asked many times why and the answer is simple; installations to remote hosts are not really standardized as depending on the hosting providers environments the steps to install can differ greatly. However, due to popular demand I have created this tutorial which will provide you the basic overview of how to perform a clean installation of DotNetNuke on a remote web hosting provider. In the article I will try to point out the most common areas of difference between different hosting providers, I will also be providing specific examples regarding the use of the Plesk control panel which is what my hosting provider (3Essentials) uses. This article is my second
revision updated to add some more clarifying points, be sure to share any feedback
in the comments section at the bottom of the full article!
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Posted by Mitchel on Monday, September 17, 2007
Installing DotNetNuke can be somewhat difficult at times, therefore I am writing this article to give you a full step by step guide to installing DotNetNuke on a Windows XP Pro system. The instructions are similar for Windows 2000 and XP Home but might vary slightly, I have tried to note as many differences as possible. Windows Vista installation is similar but requires a few different steps relating to IIS. This guide is my third revision and includes additional steps and information based
on feedback from previous users.
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Posted by Mitchel on Monday, September 17, 2007
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