Entries for July 2015

This is an interview I have recorded with Will Strohl, Co-owner and Director Of Product Development @ Hotcakes Commerce, an ecommerce solution for DNN. Continue Reading »

Since early spring, the DNN Platform team and the DNN community have been hard at work on DNN 8. In this major platform release we are looking to dramatically reshape how DNN is delivered and to provide great new capabilities that make it easier for site owners to build and maintain websites and applications. We are also providing new capabilities to make it easier for developers to leverage modern technologies to create DNN extensions.

I am happy to announce the release of DNN 8.0 CTP 3. This release is focused on delivering the new Dynamic Content Type Manager and incremental update support.

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This month we had the pleasure to speak with Mitchel Sellers.  He’s a long-time DNN supporter and advocate.  Aside from being a DNN and Microsoft MVP, he’s literally written the book on extending DNN through modules.  He&rs... Continue Reading »

How can you auto-tweet a new blog entry that appears in the DNN Community blog?

That can be easily done with IFTTT.

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Recently I started developing a web site that is in need of an image gallery and has to be responsive. As it has to be as cheap as possible, there are not too much choices.

I pulled some pieces together to make it work - read on to see.

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Last weekend I spend a rainy Sunday moving a number of (former core) DNN modules from CodePlex to GitHub. My intention was to open up the source and the modules for a larger group of community members.  Continue Reading »

What is a DNN MVP? DNN MVP stands for: DNN Most Valuable Person, DNN MVP is a reward for individuals for contributions to the DNN community, is it a reward for people in the community and selected by people from the community.  There are a... Continue Reading »

DNN 8 will support creating modules using ASP.NET MVC version 5.1 (or later) as well as using a SPA (Single Page Application) module using HTML 5, JavaScript and ASP.NET Web API.  In previous blogs in this series I have described how these modules can be built and I have shown how localization is handled.  One topic still to describe is how both of these approaches can register module actions so they show on DNN’s module action menu.

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DNN 8 will support creating modules using a SPA (Single Page Application) model using HTML 5, JavaScript and ASP.NET Web API based web services.  In a previous blog in this series I showed how you can set up your environment to create SPA modules. This model development style has been available ever since we added support for ASP.NET Web API, but in DNN 8 we have added support for html files to be module controls.  This means that we no longer require some form of code-behind file.  So how do we do things like registering JavaScript files that we used to do in those code behind files.  In this blog I describe how we have extended DNNs token support to provide these abilities.  As before the source code for my examples is available on Github at https://github.com/cnurse/DnnConnect.Demo.

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DNN 8 will support creating modules using ASP.NET MVC version 5.1 or later.  In previous blogs in this series I showed how you can set up your environment to create MVC modules and I created my first MVC Action/View. In this blog I will describe the support we have included for localizing text in MVC Controllers and MVC Views.  As before the source code for my examples is available on Github at https://github.com/cnurse/DnnConnect.Demo.

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