I often see developers solving content challenges with the data-oriented principles. This is fundamentally wrong, like writing a sentence using letters instead of words. Such data-solutions work - but only after educating the editor in database concepts. Our customers find DNN-solutions simpler than Wordpress - because of a paradigm shift which changes everything we do. I would love to help you to see the world in this way - here's an attempt at it…

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There are two DNN conferences coming up very soon.  DNNCon is in April, held in Baltimore, Maryland, and DNN-Connect is in Girona, Spain in June.  Our guests are all organizers or co-organizers, and they spend some time with us Want to Be ... Continue Reading »

In this episode, we decided to have our guest be the topic.  The DNN 8 release was so HUUUUUUGE that we felt that it needed to speak for itself.  DNN 8 brings with it a ton of new features that developers can take advantage of.  These things include ... Continue Reading »

The DNN Community Blog should be a place not just for news and interesting information, but a source of conversation and sharing of ideas.  The Community Blog exists for DNN community members to post topics, and for other community members to provide the conversation via the comments.  The interaction between author and commenter is what makes blogging great! Continue Reading »

Separation of application and storage is always a good thing.  When we build a website (or any software, for that matter) it’s best to separate out the storage of data used by the site with the application code used to deliver the site itself.&n... Continue Reading »

I’ve been maintaining my DotNetNuke Visual Studio project templates for a number of years now, one of the things they have sorely been lacking is the ability to “customize” the templates without having to crack open the full source code of the VSIX project, making changes, and then recompiling everything. There are 5 specific strings/values that were ripe for customization, but simply were not easily accessible.

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And the devil spoke: "Let there be errors". And God Spoke: "Let there be a debugger". This is a short tutorial to get you started in cornering JavaScript errors. 

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The DNN 8 Module Challenge entries are in and it is time to hear from the community.  The Module Challenge was intended to stimulate our developer community to create some great new modules that show off the power DNN 8.  We have some amazing entries this year and it will be interesting to see which module floats to the top as the community favorite.

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Microsoft has always been viewed as a developer friendly company.  Almost every product they build is extensible and includes in-depth documentation. All of this documentation is maintained in the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), which is one of the premiere developer documentation centers in the world.

Since DNN was first created, thousands of pages of documentation and hundreds of videos have been created. Much of this documentation is available at various locations on DNNSoftware.com and in a few external sites. Documentation is available as help files, pdfs, wiki articles, blog posts, videos and PowerPoint slide-decks. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to find the information you are looking for, and when you do find it, it is not always clear if the documentation is up to date.

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Content Management has some unique challenges which are very different from working with data. One of these is how a module knows which content to show. 2sxc has various features, here I'll provide you a deeper understanding to help you create advanced solutions.

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