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Windows XP Pro Folder Security

Ok. I am starting to think that one of the security features of the Windows operating system is the fact that they change the security administration user interface in each version. I am used to the Windows 2000 function which allows you to right-cli... Continue Reading »

Aug 22

By: Shaun Walker

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DotNetNuke Skinning

A couple months ago, another developer named David Haggard ( New Covenant ) approached me with ideas for a DotNetNuke skinning solution. He had experimented with the XML Skins but found the limitations too constraining for his needs. From a requireme... Continue Reading »

Aug 22

By: Shaun Walker

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AccessDataProvider

As part of the DAL Abstraction project I have promised a MS Access implementation. Why Access you ask? Didn't Microsoft publicly say that Access is going to be phased out in favour of the more powerful MSDE? Well it seems that our friends at Microsof... Continue Reading »

Aug 20

By: Shaun Walker

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SQLDataProvider

I am happy to report that I have an Abstract Factory architecture with a full SQL Server Data Provider implementation completed. The most time consuming part involved rewriting all of the DAL methods for each class in the DNN Core. The SQL Server imp... Continue Reading »

Aug 18

By: Shaun Walker

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Dev Labs

I am attending Dev Labs at Microsoft this week... getting a sneak peek at the features included in ASP.NET 2.0 (Whidbey). NDA prevents explicit comments on detailed enhancements however I must say the team at Microsoft has done an amazing job of exte... Continue Reading »

Aug 14

By: Shaun Walker

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DAL and PAs

DotNetNuke allows third party developers to create custom modules and compile their business/data access logic into a private assembly ( PA ). This DLL can be deployed to the DotNetNuke \bin directory and called directly by the application.For consis... Continue Reading »

Aug 11

By: Shaun Walker

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Object Oriented Dilemma

Working on the abstract Data Access Layer has forced me to explore the object oriented capabilities of VB.NET. The purpose of the the abstract DAL project is to allow DotNetNuke to run on any SQL compliant database. To achieve this goal I am followin... Continue Reading »

Aug 09

By: Shaun Walker

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ADA/508

The University of Texas at El Paso ( UTEP ) have created an ADA/508 compliant version of DotNetNuke which they have graciously offered to share with our community. We are currently deciding whether or not this code should be released in the next Serv... Continue Reading »

Aug 07

By: Shaun Walker

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Service Pack

Starting today the Core Team will begin a one week development cycle on a Service Pack release. The purpose of the release from a management perspective is to establish the procedures for source code control, defect analysis, builds, and deployment. ... Continue Reading »

Aug 03

By: Shaun Walker

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Workspaces

I added all of the project files into the source control in the Workspaces today. There are many files not included in the solution file which are necessary for running the application and had to be added to the Workspaces manually. I also created a ... Continue Reading »

Aug 01

By: Shaun Walker

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