As a developer of hundreds of custom DotNetNuke extensions I have to say one of my favorite enhancements to the DotNetNuke platform over the last few years was the inclusion of the new DotNetNuke Form Pattern that was part of the 6.x release.  By incorporating a consistent design pattern it became trivial for extension developers to build modules that had similar UI patterns and would thus have consistently styled applications.  By doing this it is possible to make the understanding of flow within your applications easier as you are leverage a UI style that more similarly matches that of the platform itself.  However, as with any new feature it hasn't came without a few "bumps" in the road.  There were a few changes between 6.x and 7.x that have caused a bit of a problem for those of us that have already adopted the patterns, or those that might.  In this post we will look at these differences and the one small change that you can make for a seamless experience regardless of if you are targeting 6.x or 7.x!

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This week I have been at Code PaLOUsa 2013, which has been a truly amazing event.  Over the course of the last two days I have given a total of three sessions on various current .NET development topics.  In this posting you will see all of my presentations materials, they are provided for reference only!  If you have any questions or comments please fee free to reach out in the comments below.

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I have been working on this blog posting for over 2-3 weeks, by far one of the longest writes of any posting that I’ve done in the past. The reason for this is that I’m writing about a concept that you should already be aware of which is the inclusion of Model Binding Support for Web Forms in ASP.NET 4.5. You can find a number of resources out there that talk about this, including this amazing tutorial series. So why do I feel the need to spend so much of my time writing about this feature? Well read on to find out!

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Last week I was a trainer and a speaker at the Southern Fried DotNetNuke event that was held in Charlotte, NC.  This event was fantastic with a day of optional training on Friday and a series of sessions on Saturday in the format of a regular Code Camp event.  As I promised the attendees of my sessions I would be posting information and assets from these presentations here on this blog.  This posting is an overall aggregate with information on the two sessions and trainings, future blog postings will expand on the information contained within.

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DotNetNuke module development became a lot easier when it became easy to use MSBuild to simply build your project and get a nice install-able module package in the end.  I've been using this process for a number of years now, but there have always been those little things with the default templates that many have been distributing that just don't meet my needs 100%.  For example a few years back I blogged about a fix for Auto Packaging Multiple Modules.  This post shows a fix for one of my other biggest pet-peeves when it comes to the auto-package process and that comes from the determination of the 'PackageName' that is used to name the destination file.

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Often when working with web applications it is necessary to secure access to documents or other user supplied resources.  If you look online you will find a number of different recommendations on how to accomplish this.  Some will recommend a HTTP Handler, some will recommend a simple ASPX, others will have other random ideas.  Regardless of the actual implementation there is always a common area of mixed recommendation, once you have validated that the user has the proper permissions to access the resource, how do you get the item to the user?  In this post I'll discuss a new API that is publicly available in .NET 4.5 that helps with one problem area.

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