Entries for June 2018

What's old is new again! Command line tools have recently become all the rage. What if you didn't have to use Visual Studio to develop a DNN module? What if you didn't have to remember all the structure that goes along with a DNN Module? Well now you don't have to worry about any of that. Simply use generator-dnn!

generator-dnn is a Yeoman plugin to scaffold out DNN Modules. You simply run the command yo dnn and answer a few questions. Based on your answers the structure for a module is created and you can start coding. This works completely from the command line and has no dependency on Visual Studio. Over the years there has been a trend to move towards command line tools and code editors instead of using full-blown IDEs.

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The DNN Technology Ecosystem Advisory Group continues to meet on a weekly basis mapping out the future of DNN. The meeting videos are shared here in blog entries so that everyone can see the progress being made and conversations occurring in the group. This June 26th, 2018 meeting entailed in-depth discussion on the persona bar + a demonstration of Liquid Content followed by some architectural discussions of implementing liquid content into the platform.

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I would like to start regular meetings for everyone interested in discussing the development and modernization of the old Dnn core modules.

If you are interested in joining this first meeting, please note this url and click it a few minutes before the meeting to make sure your audio settings are correct. https://zoom.us/j/416853470

The meeting will be at 3PM EDT (19:00 GMT) on July 5th 2018

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This month we were joined by Daniel Valadas who has been putting a tremendous amount of work into reviving the old Community/Core modules to get them to work on DNN v9.2. We were also joined by Mitchel Sellers who is leading the DNN Technology group. Mitchel provided a lot of insight into the direction of things moving forward.

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In the recent months I have noticed a increase in the number of clients that want to upgrade Dnn, they are often faced with modules that break due to breaking changes in the platform. And the older the module, the more chances it has of being affected. Unfortunately, we cannot do much for third party modules, but I feel nobody should be blocked from upgrading because of a module that was formerly included with Dnn. After thinking about it, I decided to take initiative and made it my goal to make all the old “core” modules work on DNN v9.2. As you would imagine this is not a task that is achieved overnight, but I’ve made good progress. Several modules are already current and in doing so, I think it fired up a new wave of motivation within the Dnn Community Developers!

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The DNN Technology Ecosystem Advisory Group continues to meet on a weekly basis mapping out the future of DNN. The meeting videos are shared here in blog entries so that everyone can see the progress being made and conversations occurring in the group. This June 19th, 2018 meeting saw some great discussion around upcoming releases, build automation, pull-requests, and processes.

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You can now install the same app multiple times, which is great when you need the same functionality again but separate, or when you want to upgrade an app and want the new code running side-by side. And there's more...

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Depending on who you ask, you’ll be the recipient of a very passionate response when you ask any DNN’er their opinion about DNN upgrades.  In general, upgrading DNN is very similar to any other ASP.NET application.  Yet, when things go wrong, people tend to blame the application itself.  Don’t get me wrong, the respective application can and sometimes does have something to do with an issue that may occur, but in my experience, that’s the exception and not the rule.  Here are some tips to help you have a less "exciting" time the next time you have to upgrade DNN.

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Watch the video from the DNN-Connect 2018 Conference in Limerick, where Daniel explains his vision of how great organizations work - and how 2sic is modeled. 

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The June 2018 DNN MVP Meeting saw discussion around recent updates and events in the ecosystem, updates from each EAG Leader, and a discussion around the MVP Program. Good things are on the way! Check out the replay video to get the info.

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