This is the second of two special episodes of the DNN Hangout, focused on helping DNN developers world-wide to learn more about the DNN 8 module development patterns.  This time, we walked through the MVC development pattern in DNN.  Follow... Continue Reading »

Every now and then, we throw in a special episode of DNN Hangout.  These special episodes are normally by request of you or another viewer in our audience.  This time, we didn’t need to wait for a prompt…  With the announcement of the DNN 8 module de... Continue Reading »

This month is a hangout that I’m very proud to have been a part of.  For one reason, we announced an exciting DNN 8 module development contest.  A contest that will yield some people in the community a lot of cash.  The other reason, i... Continue Reading »

Since DNN was first introduced in 2003, modules have been the primary method for building DNN extensions. While we have made many advancements in module development over the years, fundamentally, all modules have been based on the Web Forms framework. In DNN 8 we are introducing the MVC and SPA module types. These module types enable developers to break out of the web forms development paradigm and instead use modern web development practices and frameworks within the DNN platform. These new module types follow many of the standard conventions for MVC and AJAX based development, while still providing full integration with the DNN platform. These new modules types are designed to give developers more choice in how they build DNN modules. Continue Reading »

DNN Platform 7.4.2 has been released. The release notes can be found here https://www.dnnsoftware.com/community-blog/cid/155274/dnn-platform-742-is-released This release resolves the following two security issues -full details can be read at https:/... Continue Reading »

I am happy to announce that DNN 7.4.2 is now available for download. What started out as a relatively small maintenance release has turned into one of our largest maintenance releases ever.  We spent a lot of time working to resolve a number of password management and multi-language issues along with a few performance enhancements.  In total, we ran well over 5000 manual and automated tests on this release with a 99% pass rate. 

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A few weeks ago, I was contacted by a community member, who was facing the phenomenon in his multi-site DNN, that a couple of pages got deleted and this happened again and again - especially newly created pages.

 

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This is an interview I have recorded with Jason Lichon, Founding Partner at BlueBolt Solutions, a DNN Gold Partner who's product line include PackFlash Constellation Suite and Bravo Search. Continue Reading »

Giving a hand with existing modules A couple of months back, I moved a number of open source DNN modules from CodePlex to the DNNCommunity area on GitHub. Moving the projects to GitHub has some advantages: The source can be easily forked an... Continue Reading »

Since the earliest days of DNN, users have had the ability to create user defined tables for storing structured content.  The original UDT module was eventually renamed to the Form & List module and continued to be enhanced for many years to provide greater control over the data definition and presentation.  Over the past couple of years there have been a few other Open Source modules that have tackled the job of providing structured content editing for DNN.  I have long believed that this is a fundamental requirement of any CMS and should be an out of the box capability for the platform.

I’m pleased to announce that DNN 8 will once again include the ability to create, edit and display structured content as a native capability of the platform.  DNN 8 CTP 5 for the first time includes both the Dynamic Content Type Manager and the Dynamic Content Viewer.  These two modules, along with an improved Content API, make up the new Dynamic Content Creator (DCC).

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