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So far, you know everything you need to know to get a basic module up and running. There are a few items we still need to cover regarding the configuration of your module so that it can have different types of behavior with each instance, but before we get to that, there are a few more higher-level topics we need to discuss with regard to the main view module code. The first of those is how to make the module searchable.

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Now that we have the module skeleton up and running and we have a data access layer, the next thing we need to look at is specific functions you may need to use from within your code. One of the most useful functions is Globals.NavigateURL(). This is particularly useful if you want to generate a hyperlink back to the same page you are on. But with some additional code that we’ll introduce later, you can also use this to generate a hyperlink to another page.

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Now that I’ve explained the standard way of creating a Data Access Layer (DAL) for DotNetNuke, we can address the alternative method of providing this same functionality.

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Now that we’ve created our stored procedures, we are going to use some of the other CodeSmith templates to generate our data access layer (DAL).

Keep in mind that the templates you are going to be using were originally meant to be used on DotNetNuke 3.x. They did a great job of creating the code we needed. But as the DataSet construct matured and Generics were introduced, the whole idea of using Info classes and ArrayList went the way of the dinosaur. So there will be some tweaking we will need to do.

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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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