Entries for 'Chris Hammond'

The Summit is Coming! The Summit is Coming! February 19th thru 23rd, 2019.

Are you ready for DNNSummit? I am. This will be my third year presenting in Denver, Colorado, my most favorite of states. If you haven’t attended the conference before, you’re in for a treat, I’ll try to give you some insight as to what you can expect!

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If you've recently upgraded an older DNN site to DNN 9.2, and experienced a login problem, resulting in an error that says

Specified argument was out of the range of valid values.

Parameter name: slidingExpiration

You're probably frustrated that you can't login and use your DNN site. If you're lucky, you still have a browser where you have a user logged in and able to access the site (I was lucky). 

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For a while now I've been threatening to work on a new theme for DNN, a new package building on Bootstrap 4 (currently Beta-3) to provide an alternative to my HammerFlex skin that I first released in January 2014 (yikes, where'd the past three years go?).

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15 years ago a guy named Shaun Walker released something special unto the world. Something that would ultimately change the way Microsoft approached Open Source. Shaun released a CMS tool called IBuySpy Workshop, a modified version of IBuySpy Portal. The IBuySpy Workshop ultimately became DotNetNuke, now known as DNN (I’m nostalgic for DotNetNuke btw).

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With the release of Visual Studio 2017 coming in a few short hours, I am proud to release the latest update for the Christoc’s DotNetNuke Extension Development Templates!

With this release I’ve updated my suite of DNN extension templates (modules and themes) to support Visual Studio 2017.

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With DNN 9, one of the features that has gone missing, is the ability to see which pages a specific module is on. In older versions of DNN you found this functionality on the HOST/Extensions page, but in DNN 9.0.0/1/2 it was left out (I’ve been told it is coming back in DNN 9.1).

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In an earlier blog post I talked about the EventLog table and the Exceptions table, specifically in terms of how to “clear” the tables out. This post will talk specifically about how to keep the EventLog table cleaned up to begin with.

In DNN you have the ability to configure if you would like specific EventLogTypes to be tracked or not. By default in DNN there are over 100 different events that can be tracked in the EventLog table. Many of these are turned off by default, you can configure them to be “on” by going to the Admin Logs page in the Persona Bar, and choose the Log Settings tab

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At some point, if you manage a DNN based website long enough, you are going to run into a problem where your database seems to have grown WAY bigger than it should be. I’m not talking a couple hundred megs, I’m talking gigabytes, lots of gigabytes. This post will hopefully help you get that under control.

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Over the past couple of weeks I've jumped back into recording some DNN tutorials and have been posting them on YouTube. I'll be working on building out many many more videos over the next few months, but one I cranked out last night is near and dear to me. When I visit a website on the public internet, and I can easily tell it is DNN, a number of things tend to annoy me. Primarily things that every web site manager should know and change when using DNN.

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No one else seems willing to do it (other than a security bulletin), so I'll do a quick blog post about 9.0.1 being released! Depending on what the "source" is, it appears that DNN 9.0.1 was released either 12 days ago, or 4 days ago. So ... Continue Reading »