What You Need:
- Visual Web Developer Express
(download)
- SQL Server Express
(download)
- The latest copy of the DotNetNuke
"Install Version"
(download)
Download and Install DotNetNuke
The trick here is to download the Install Version. The source is bulky and not useful for module development because you don't want to develop a module on an installation that is not standard.
Create a directory on your hard drive. Do not put it under the wwwroot directory because it will most likely have permissions set that will make the installation difficult.
Unzip the files to the directory
Go to the \Install\Module directory and delete everything but HTML_(version)_Install.zip
Open Visual Web Developer Express (or Visual Studio 2005)
Select
File then
Open Web Site
Open the root of the web site
From the toolbar select Debug then Start Without Debugging
The site will build and the internal web server will start
The site sets up using the default settings that are set to use SQL Server Express
Return to Visual Web Developer and
right-click on the root of the website in the
Solution Explorer and select
Refresh Folder
This will show the newly created folders such as the
DesktopModules folder.
You can now right-click on it and create a new folder
You can now start building your module in the directory
If you are new to DotNetNuke Module Development, it is suggested you start here: