Many of you won’t care too much about creating Portal Specific Modules because you’ll be creating modules for an environment that only has one portal. However, if you are creating a module for resell, or you will be using the module in a multi-portal environment, you’ll need this next piece of information I’m going to give you.
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If you’ve been avoiding using JSON in your ASP.NET application because you think it’s hard, you’re an idiot. I can say that, because I’ve been avoiding it for exactly that reason. I’ve been an idiot too. But no more! Using an UpdatePanel is still easier than JSON. But JSON is easy enough that you may decide to use it over the UpdatePanel under certain circumstances.
On Tuesday we installed the free version of CodeSmith to help us create the database access code. Before we can create the access code, we need some tables in our system. Even if you think you know all about creating tables in a database, don’t skip this lesson. There are some very specific tips related to working with DotNetNuke that you will miss if you skip it.
Last night, one of my clients assigned me a problem that I thought was going to require one solution, and in the end it was just poor programming. But the process reminded me of the need for good debugging skills. Just how do you know where the performance problem is?
As you can probably already guess, localizing a LinkButton in DotNetNuke is pretty straightforward. But you’ll never guess what most people miss when they add this little control to their DotNetNuke module.
