Archive for May, 2008

Creating DNN Modules - The Tools

As with any endeavor, having the proper tools makes all the difference when creating a DotNetNuke modules.  So, before we get started, you’ll need to make sure you have the following tools.

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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

WordPress w/ Forms Authentication on IIS6

I know I said yesterday that I’d start a series about creating DotNetNuke modules, but I solved a problem yesterday after I wrote that post that I think a lot of you will be interested in.  Especially if you are using WordPress in combination with an ASP.NET site.

The problem we had was this.  We have an ASP.NET web site that requires a login before anyone can see any pages.  We wanted to add a WordPress blog to it that could only be viewed when people log in and wanted to be able to have the same user names in WordPress that they had in ASP.NET.

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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Creating DotNetNuke Modules

I’ve decided to start a series on how to create DNN Modules since I have several clients who need to know this information and I don’t know of one good place I can send them that has it all laid out in a nice step by step process.

The things I plan to cover during this series include:

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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Image Map Control and JavaScript

Several months ago, I had to create a map that displayed push pins where various distributors were located.  When the user placed the cursor over the push pin, a tooltip was suppose to show up with a short form of the contact information in it.

My first thought was, “hey, great, I can use that new ImageMap control they put in ASP.NET 2.0.  But, when I went to use it, I discovered quickly that you can’t attach JavaScript to elements of the image map.  You can only attach them to the parent control which is nothing more than an image control with a collection of image map elements.

Here’s what I did…

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Monday, May 19th, 2008

Visual Studio 2008 Changes WebService Proxy

Just a short post today to address a change in how VS 2008 handles proxying your web services.

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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008