Entries for December 2009

Visual Studio 2010 Release Date Change

As I have mentioned before I am working on a book that covers Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0. So I have been playing with Visual Studio 2010 for quite a while now, and many of the common lines of feedback have been that the product is a great improvement in a lot of areas, however, there has been an overarching performance issue that ha...

Posted by Mitchel on Friday, December 18, 2009

Tags: General Tech, Book Updates

Spell Check for DNN Module Developers

I have talked to many developers that have one common feature request that we would like to see for Visual Studio, Spell Check. As a developer one of the most troubling things can be minor typo's in code after it has been completed. Although simple to fix, it can be embarrassing to have a typo that goes out in a module that a client is reviewing or that you put up for sale on SnowCovered. Well, today I got an email from Chad Nash at DataSprings, and they have a set of tools that are going to help us out on this front from a DNN module perspective.

Potential DNN 5.2 Upgrade Issues

After talking with a number of clients since last week, I thought it would be worthwhile to make a post here with a formal warning regarding upgrades to DotNetNuke 5.2. As announced at OpenForce US, DotNetNuke 5.2 contains the Telerik Controls for ASP.NET, which is a very good thing for DotNetNuke as a whole, however, it can cause massive problems for individuals that are already using the Telerik Controls as a site upgrade can end up rendering portions, or the entire site unusable, until DLL versions are restored. In this post I will give a bit of information regarding the scenarios that I have encountered and some guidance on how to protect yourself from upgrade issues.