Hello Mitchel

I had asked over on the DNN forum about converting the DNN project to a WAP model... and some one had mentioned that you had done this...

Are there any issues in doing this? Any problems? Biggest benifit?

On another site (www.haacked.com) it was mentioned that the Global.asax file had to be converted to C# if your modules are going to be written in C#. (mine are). Why don't the forms that are under the "Admin" directory have to be in C#? Their code files are all in VB. An example of a WAP DNN project was on the haacked.com site, and it compiled fine with vb code files and my own modules in C#.. The global.asax file was converted to C#. How can that work if they all go into the same dll?

Thanks

Harold

Hello Mitchel,

Thanks for the quick reply!

Right, so for each module just make that it's own WAP project...

This came about because of a really weird problem I was having getting a LINQ query to work in a website project...

this line:

 grdTickets.DataSource = this.Ticket.Converter.ToDataReader(TicketList.Select(tick => new { tick.ProjectID, tick.PortalID, tick.UserTicketID, tick.DueDate, tick.Description }));   

was always bombing on the "=>" operator.. it could not interpret it! I dropped the same form unchanged into WAP site to test it in that model, and it worked right away. I did not change any USING statements and the references were the same as far as I could tell...very weird and frustrating!

So do you just put your modules in their own WAP?

Thanks!

Harold

ok, awesome.. nice to confirm this, thanks for your quick help.. wasn't getting as far on the DNN forums with a meaningful response.

Harold

One more thing Mitchel...

When the module is compiled, do you use the projects post-build event to copy over the ASPX or ASCX files to the desktopmodules directory in DNN? What might that look like?

Thanks

Harold

I'm still having issues with this WAP way of developing modules.

I'm trying to add an objectdatasource to the editxxx.aspx page and because it doesn't know where to get the dnn controls it replaces them with ones it knows about. It regens the designer.cs file and no longer builds because it doesn't know about the dnn controls anymore.

I've found some posts about this and some comments on one of your articles.

See the first comment on this page. http://www.mitchelsellers.com/blogs/articletype/articleview/articleid/179/pageid/92.aspx

That's what i'm getting and I can't get around it. It shouldn't be this hard! Surely there is a way to change the edit page? I wanted to add a grid view or some other way of editing more than one field at a time. The template I have from bitethebullet.uk.co has one data field, and I'd like lots.

thanks,

Stephen