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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Learn how to use CSV files - from nightly syncs or Excel-Exports - and just show the data in any template you want. This example uses Tokens and no code at all thanks to the new CSV DataSource. The video shows how it can be done in just 5 minutes with caching and everything. Continue Reading »

2sxc 7.2 offers many new features for people developing Apps the modern way. This mainly includes support for tools like NPM, Grunt and Github, but also new data sources to cover more data-scenarios like caching, paging and CSV files. Continue Reading »

This is an interview I have recorded with Peter Donker, creator of Document Exchange, a document management solution for DNN. Continue Reading »

The new Search starting DNN 7.1 uses Lucene as its indexing and querying engine. Lucene is a file-based NoSQL database.  You need a specialized Java tool "Luke" to dig into this database. Luke is mostly used to troubleshoot issues with Search, ... Continue Reading »

I come across too many web forms which include a captcha element, one of those captchas where you have to type in the squirly characters, I know the site admin added it in hopes it might thwart spam bots in the future. These captchas add friction to ... Continue Reading »

I believe we need more fast-consumption material to convince people that DNN is the optimal solution for their needs. As "the content-guy" I created a intro-in-100-seconds video - use it as you wish, and it would be great if you too could create such intro-videos in 100 seconds or say 3 minutes. Anything longer and I believe it won't be used in quick-research scenarios. Continue Reading »

Now that the Microsoft-Does-Everything-Different is dead and we all are moving to the development models of the future which embrace HTML and JavaScript - it's time to learn Grunt. 

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