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DotNetNuke - Publishing Content with Portal Templates and the Site Wizard Feature

In order to get around the lack of workflow and versioning in DotNetNuke, you can take a more traditional style to managing content and have a local version of DotNetNuke where you manage your content and then post your content using a Portal Template and the Site Wizard.

New DotNetNuke Video Posted - March 2008

HTC Touch for Sprint - Enabling Tethering to Get Internet Access Through Your Phone
By Ryan Morgan on 11/7/2007 7:23 AM

I just bought the HTC Touch - I know, completely off-topic - and I wanted to post where I found the best instructions on how to enable bluetooth networking to use the phone as modem option. 
 

Setting up a Demo Portal at DotNetNuke.com

Part 1 of 2, this walkthrough will help you set up your demo portal at DotNetNuke.com and allow you to get a great introduction to DNN administration.

Using Your Demo Portal at DotNetNuke.com to Explore DNN

Part 2 of 2, this walkthrough will give you a great overview on DotNetNuke using a free demo portal at DotNetNuke.com

Get AJAX ASP.NET Extensions Going with DNN DotNetNuke
 By Ryan Morgan on 3/29/2007 8:46 AM 
 
I’ve been trying to implement the ASP.NET Ajax framework into a pet module of mine and I couldn’t get it to work. I wrapped a gridview with an updatepanel and that was supposed to hijack the postback caused by a linkbutton nested in the gridview. It turns out that in DNN 437... 

Walk Through on the New Security, Roles, Membership and Profile Features in x.3.4
Part 1: Roles and Directory Security
This lab is part 1 of 2 that will give you a step-by-step walk through on many of the new security, membership and profile features in x.3.4.

Walk Through on the New Security, Roles, Membership and Profile Features in x.3.4
Part 2: Membership, Profile and User Settings
This lab is part 2 of 2 that will give you a step-by-step walk through on many of the new security, membership and profile features in x.3.4.

Customizing the Search Box UI for DotNetNuke Skins
This tutorial walks through how to customize the search box user control layout and design in your DotNetNuke skins without a core modification.

Creating a "Test Browser" for a True Preview without the Logout/Log-back-in Pain
One of the pains of module development and skin development is being able to view your work as the user would view it without having to logout and log back in. This is especially true if you are testing different permission sets and you want to see what it looks like as the Host, the Administrator and a custom role that you created. This lab walks through a simple tool that allows you to have a separate instance of IE running as a different user with it's own profile, cookies etc.

Thank you Tampa MSDN Code Camp
I had so much fun at the Tampa Code Camp - Rafael, Scott, Don, Eric - thanks for the awesome questions. Everyone thanks for the awesome feedback on the codecampevals.com site. (http://www.codecampevals.com/speakers/SpeakerEvals.aspx?CodeCampID=4)

Child Portals - get rid of the "?alias="
Quick edit to make child portal URLs easier to read. For instance, if you have your child portal configured to be www.myportal.com/child, when you navigate you will get a URL that says www.myportal.com/default.aspx?alias=child this blog tells you how to keep the child portal name in the URL looking all pretty with no need for a recompile.

Click to activate and use this control
Click here to learn how to get rid of this Internet Explorer (IE) Flash behavior - also read articles on why it's happening.

Free DotNetNuke Training Videos Up
The two sessions from the MSDN Orlando Code Camp that I captured are now available. Developing Custom Modules using Code Generation and Freely Available Tools & Real-World Skinning using... More...

CodeCamp Sessions and the Smackdown
I had a great time this past weekend teaching DNN'ers some cool tricks I've learned in the real-world of DNN development at the MSDN Orlando Code Camp. The video version of the tutorial will be available on this website within the next two weeks. The first session was...  More...

Good Recommendation on the ABCUpload.NET Control
I saved a bunch of time by using the ABCUpload.net control in a recent project More...

There are currently three custom modules that are being sold by Arrow Consulting & Design. Podcaster, Image Uploader and Evite - Tell a Friend.

Podcaster has been the most popular of the modules so far. Podcaster makes it easy to add podcasting to a DotNetNuke Portal by handling all of the specialized RSS tags that iTunes requires to get listed correctly. There is also detailed documentation for the podcasting module including a walk-through on how to get listed in iTunes.

Image Uploader is great for any portal that needs to grant users with no photo-editing experience the ability to upload usable images into the portal. By using the module as the users' image uploading control, you can set the maximum size that an image should be and Image Uploader will automatically resize the images as they upload them.

Evite - Tell a Friend lets you upload HTML templated E-Vites into your DNN portal for people to spread the word about important events. Tell a Friend is great for use as a DotNetNuke church evite module.