I am pleased to announce that DNN Platform 7.3.3 has been released. The 7.3.3 release was a stabilization release. One of the highlights for this release was the significant number of pull requests we received from community members. The community provided over 40% of all fixes that went into the 7.3.3 release which is definitely in keeping with the spirit of joint ownership and development of the DNN Platform. I look forward to increase this level of participation coming in future releases.

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Before we can start down the path of developing a module we must first have the appropriate software on our machines. If you already have Visual Studio and/or SQL Server installed on your machine then you're already ahead of the game, but those aren't the only software highlighted in this entry. This blog entry points to the software needed plus some online resources that will be helpful in our journey of developing our first module.

 

 

 

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This is an interview I have recorded with Kelly Ford from DNNDev.com. His famous module is called xMod Pro and it is the 2nd module with the with most revenue of all times on the DNN Store! Continue Reading »

So the Dnn Platform has been nominated in both the Best Free .NET CMS and Best Open Source .NET CMS categories in the 2014 People’s Choice CMS Awards and I am proud to say that my vote counted and the Dnn Platform got the rewards that it deserves!

Why did I vote? Well it’s pretty simple…..

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We are on a journey to develop a module, but before we get started into trying to develop a module we need to first understand what a module is, how we can use it, how to configure module settings, and where we go inside of DNN to learn more about a module. Modules are probably the most popular extension point within DNN. This blog entry provides a lot of high level information about modules so that we are clear on that which we are about to build.

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What do you do if you want to learn how to develop modules, but you're not a developer or you are a front end developer or you are a complete newbie to DNN? If you're asking that question then join me as I attempt to write an in-depth, A to Z, blog series on module development starting with this introductory entry.

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As a Q3 special we (actually Raphael) just published a new gallery App based on blueimp, and we pimped it up with neat features like drag-and-drop file upload (in Razor) and optional metadata. In this post, I'll teach you how to do this too!

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The newly formed DNN Steering committee is responsible for high level strategic decisions about DNN Platform and the community. 

Last Friday, the first meeting was held and this blog provides notes from this meeting.

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In this post which is part 4 of my mini-series Learning Razor with an RSS-App we'll enable DNN-Search support for the new Lucene-based search built into DNN in Version 7.2, outsource some complex code and use much nicer template placeholders...

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As you probably know, DNN has been nominated in the 2014 CMS Critic Awards.  In 2013 we were honored to receive several awards: Critic’s Choice Award, Best Social Networking Solution for Evoq Social People’s Choice Award,... Continue Reading »