New Community Website

Ordinarily, you'd be at the right spot, but we've recently launched a brand new community website... For the community, by the community.

Yay... Take Me to the Community!

The Community Blog is a personal opinion of community members and by no means the official standpoint of DNN Corp or DNN Platform. This is a place to express personal thoughts about DNNPlatform, the community and its ecosystem. Do you have useful information that you would like to share with the DNN Community in a featured article or blog? If so, please contact community@dnnsoftware.com.

The use of the Community Blog is covered by our Community Blog Guidelines - please read before commenting or posting.

Entries for 'Peter Donker'

Impressions from DotNetNuke OpenForce EU 2010 (video)

At the last OpenForce event I took my little point and shoot Panasonic along with the intent of using it as a video camera. Nothing works better to capture the atmosphere than video, IMO. I wanted to do some interviews with people as well, but it tur... Continue Reading »

Nov 08

By: Peter Donker

Comments (1)

The never-ending language wars

The origins of .net and DNN Back in the day … Well, back when .net was conceived, Microsoft had a very forward thinking strategy regarding development languages on Windows. They owned Visual Basic (last version was 6), VBA (i.e. what was embedded in... Continue Reading »

Nov 05

By: Peter Donker

Comments (4)

How to upgrade a DNN module or the importance of backing up

The Short Answer My usual response is: just like you would a new install. You go to “module definitions”, click “add new module”, select the module zip file (no need to do anything to that zip file first) and follow instructions on screen. ... Continue Reading »

Oct 05

By: Peter Donker

Comments (1)

Version Numbering

I’ll start by admitting that when I came to DNN module development I did not have a very profound vision of version numbering. For me version numbers were simply an indication along the lines of “version 1.2 is better than 1.0”. But DNN has a very ri... Continue Reading »

Jul 23

By: Peter Donker

Comments (1)

DNN 5 installer does IUpgradeable differently

Just as I was wrapping up for a new release and testing the new package with the brand new DNN 5 manifest, I noticed that IUpgradeable.UpgradeModule had not been called in DNN 5. I was puzzled as I had labelled the module as IUpgradeable in the manif... Continue Reading »

Jul 14

By: Peter Donker

Comments (15)

Creating a PA with a DNN 5 manifest but that installs on DNN 4 as well

Ah, now that was a non-trivial task. I think I requested about half a year ago that we should be able to leverage the DNN 5 manifest enhancements without sacrificing the ability to target DNN 4. The first step was for DNN to allow multiple manifests ... Continue Reading »

Jul 13

By: Peter Donker

Comments (4)

Last call for OpenForce Europe 2010 session proposals

The Software Development Network (SDN) has begun planning for its DotNetNuke OpenForce ’10 Europe conference to be held in The Netherlands on October 25 and 26, 2010. Co-hosted with the conference will be the 19th annual SDN Conference (SDC). We her... Continue Reading »

Jun 10

By: Peter Donker

Comments (0)

European Day of DotNetNuke registration now open

We're happy to inform you that preparations for the first European Day Of DotNetNuke are going to plan. As we are finalizing the agenda and venue we need to know if you are going to come to this event. We now have a formal registration form where you... Continue Reading »

Apr 27

By: Peter Donker

Comments (0)

Back on the Newsfeeds project – Beta 1 on CodePlex

Hello everyone, After a long absence I have come back to the Newsfeeds project. I don’t have an excuse, only reasons (I have devoted a lot of effort to other parts of the DNN project). I'm very sorry I can't pick up on the forum posts. I’m not very ... Continue Reading »

Jan 21

By: Peter Donker

Comments (5)

Abstracting your module’s settings into their own class

This is an old hobby horse of mine and when working on someone else’s module it’s one of the first things I do. As I’ve just reworked the Blog module source code I thought I’d blog it so others may learn from it and use it to their own benefit. What... Continue Reading »

Jan 08

By: Peter Donker

Comments (0)

Products

Solutions

Resources

Partners

Community

About

New Community Website

Entries for 'Peter Donker'

Impressions from DotNetNuke OpenForce EU 2010 (video)

The never-ending language wars

How to upgrade a DNN module or the importance of backing up

Version Numbering

DNN 5 installer does IUpgradeable differently

Creating a PA with a DNN 5 manifest but that installs on DNN 4 as well

Last call for OpenForce Europe 2010 session proposals

European Day of DotNetNuke registration now open

Back on the Newsfeeds project – Beta 1 on CodePlex

Abstracting your module’s settings into their own class

NewsArchives

ESW Operations, LLC