Entries for August 2009

Packt Publishing CMS Awards

Posted by Mitchel on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Permalink

Well we have reached that time of year again, the annual Packt Publishing CMS Awards. I encourage all of you that have not yet voted to go out and vote for DotNetNuke, there are a total of two categories that DotNetNuke can be nominated for. Best Overall Open Source CMS - This category is for the best overall CMS solution, regardless of...

Tags: DotNetNuke, Announcements

PowerDNN Facilities and PowerGrid Review

Posted by Mitchel on Monday, August 24, 2009 Permalink

This past weekend I got a tour and demonstration of the facilities over at PowerDNN. You can check out a full report on the IowaComputerGurus site.

Performance Tuning DotNetNuke Modules with ANTS Profiler

Posted by Mitchel on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 Permalink

As I have mentioned in past posts here on this blog and via other communication channels I strongly believe that ANTS profiler which is offered by Red Gate software is a must-have tool for all software developers. Most recently with my day job I have been working with profiler a lot more than usual and it prompted me to re-visit the concept of profiling within the constructs of a DotNetNuke installation. I've had many individuals with questions before about, is it possible to profile a DNN module, or how do you set it up. Well this article will walk through all of the steps necessary to profile a single module within a local installation.

Development System Upgrade Vista -> Windows 7

Posted by Mitchel on Friday, August 07, 2009 Permalink

For those of you that follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed my posting earlier today, well technically Thursday asking about a Windows 7 upgrade. Well contrary to the consensus I decided to give it a shot an upgrade my primary development machine to Windows 7 Enterprise from the existing Windows Vista Enterprise x64 installation. B...

Tags: General Tech

How To Get Design-Time Support for DNN Controls

Posted by Mitchel on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 Permalink

As everyone that is a regular reader of this blog is already aware of I am a big fan of the WAP development model for all DotNetNuke development projects. Now, one of the most common issues that individuals have reported to me is that "design-time" support is not there for common DotNetNuke user controls that are common to integrate with custom modules. The controls I'm discussing are the DNN Label, Text Editor, and Url Controls. Luckly though it is VERY simple to get full design time support for the controls and this article will show you how to accomplish this!