How To Guides, Expert Advice, and Other Announcements from Engage

I had finally had it. I was no longer accepting the lack of tool support while editing the .SqlDataProvider scripts for DotNetNuke modules. I needed to figure out a way to make Visual Studio treat those files as if they ended with .sql instead of .SqlDataProvider so that it would give me syntax highlighting for my SQL scripts.

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It was my first time to attend the conference in Vegas this year and it was a great experience. I had the opportunity to meet with many core team members in person and talked about how DotNetNuke project has gained some momentum in recent years. Read Article

One thing we learned in Las Vegas at OpenForce 08 last week, one of many things actually, was that most people think that Engage Software only provides DotNetNuke Training. While we do provide training, and have teamed up with the DotNetNuke Corporation to be an Official DotNetNuke Training Provider, training is not the only thing we do relating to DNN. Actually, while it has grown tremendously over the past year with our expanded marketing efforts, training makes up only a small portion of our business. Read Article

Have you heard of our Engage: Employment module for DotNetNuke? I'm talking about our module for posting job listings on your website and allowing folks to apply for them. We have today released a new version of the module to fix a number of bugs that have been discovered, while completely revamping the administrative experience. Read Article

So for those of you who attended the Post Conference training last week after OpenForce you know we tried to squeeze too much information into the session and had to leave out some of the important items from the module development topics. This blog post will hopefully serve as a pointer to get you headed in the right direction for your module development! Read Article

So OpenForce 2008 has come and gone way too quickly! It’s Thursday afternoon and three of us from Engage are still sitting here... Read Article

Chris Hammond did a great job with both of his sessions - Selling DotNetNuke and DNN 5.0 Administration They were both well attended and well received. Read Article

Shaun Walker's DotNetNuke keynote was a great overview of the current state of DNN and the road ahead. Read Article

This post is overdue. I wanted to use this image in my slide deck for a presentation I gave last month at the Bloomington, IL .NET user group, but... Read Article

The current provider model in DotNetNuke is very flexible, but with that flexibility comes development overhead. Over the past few months I've started thinking about how much time I spend simply on [easy, repetitive] data access tasks, and its a little depressing. Read Article