DotNetNuke Articles

Too Friendly and They Get Hostile by DnnGear

While the situation is calming down, I'll write here a bit of what happened and how the situation formed. This article is especially useful for DNN admins and module developers. And it tells us a story of how taking the Friendly Urls into extreme might get the bots hostile.

Improving DotNetNuke Performance & Responsiveness by DnnGear

This article discusses about various administrative tasks that may help you improve the performance of your DotNetNuke setup. We are not going too deep on DotNetNuke settings, rather than that, we're going to get rid of data that may accumulate on your system and by doing so, improve the overall performance of all your sites.

On a Crusade for an Ultimate Editor by DnnGear

Repetitive or iterative work. I think that's what we all hate. That's why we have modules and the DotNetNuke Framework. So that once we got something done, we don't need to do it another time. But when it comes to receiving data from a client, or fixing a list of values into HTML or XML, we don't have DNN to help us, yet we need to go through the steps to bring the data online. For years I've worked with clients and converted a lot of textual information into variety of other forms. I discarded notepad and a lot of other good editors for managing and analyzing textual information with UltraEdit. Read my brief introduction into the program and see why.

HelloWorld Module Tutorial by vmasanas

This tutorial uses the VS.NET Project Templates v3.0.1 for DotNetNuke© and the CodeSmith Templates v3.0.1 for DotNetNuke which are made freely available here. The purpose of this tutorial is show how to build a custom module or private assembly (PA) for the DotNetNuke portal version 3.

Basic start with XMod by DnnGear

Many users have got used to DotNetNuke modules being very easy to use without almost any brain interactivity. But as more flexible modules are being developed, the learning curve gets steeper. One of these modules that allow the user to create just about anything but which are a bit harder to start off with is XMod. Read on and I'll walk you through of creating a very simple solution with XMod.

What Takes Time in Site Development with DotNetNuke by DnnGear

All of us who have built sites with DotNetNuke know how fast it can be to just wrap out a site. But once you have your site structure up, you end up spending a lot of time with the logic. Read on and find out what this logic is and how to avoid finding yourself in a major mess.

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