In my session on developing custom modules, I showed DNN'ers how to get around having to write all of the code for the provider and base controller class. By using code generation tools, we were able to start by creating a table in SQL Server and have the data, object definition and controller class written for us so that we could focus on the the fun coding. We walked through creating a functionally equivalent module to the core Feedback module that stores the messages from users in the database instead of sending them as emails. Without too much smoke in mirrors we were able to get in complete in less than an hour.

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