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

There must be a thousand people or more sitting here in the room with us watching Scott Guthrie’s keynote here on the first day of DevConnections/OpenForce 2008. Scott is currently showing some of the cool features that shipped with .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS 2k8 SP1 regarding object relational mappers (demo done in vb.net). Read Article

Well it took a bit of work, but we got the booth all set up. Ian, Chris, Dang and I did it all relatively painlessly. Chris took a neat time-lapse video of the process [coming soon]... Read Article

It's Sunday night and some of the guys from Engage are prepping themselves for spending this week in Las Vegas at the OpenForce DotNetNuke conference. Ian Robinson, Cuong Dang, Rich Campbell and myself, Chris Hammond, will be starting our journey at Lambert Airport tomorrow around noon. Read Article

Stay in touch and up-to-date with the happenings at OpenForce '08 by visiting the Engage Software Blog. We will have 4 employees in attendance, speaking, manning our booth, conducting post-conference training, and blogging about the conference! Read Article

With just 5 days until OpenForce starts in Las Vegas there is still time to get registered! This will be the ultimate DNN gathering for 2008. Read Article

When building DotNetNuke modules, a number of times I've run up against the issue of trying to instantiate a ModuleInfo instance with only a module ID. However, the GetModule signature on ModuleController takes both a module ID and a tab ID. In this latest instance where I've come against this issue, I was actually trying to get a tab ID based on the module ID, so I obviously didn't already had one to provide. Read Article

Starting in DotNetNuke version 4.9.0, only the module.css in the main folder of a module is referenced, regardless of where the control being loaded lives (unless there isn't a module.css there). Therefore, you only need one module.css to control the styles of all of your controls. Read Article

With the new skinning changes in DotNetNuke, it may be helpful to give an overview of available approaches to skin developers. Read Article

It shouldn't be hard to get started writing a module for DotNetNuke, but it doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of help especially when you are wanting to use C#. At Engage, we have created a Visual Studio project template which will get you started developing a C# DotNetNuke module, using a Web Application project (rather than the, in my opinion, much more cumbersome Web Site project). It is available for free on our downloads page after registering on the site. Read Article

After three public pre-releases, and weeks of wrestling through user-submitted bugs and those we found (so that you don't have to!), we are now ready to release Engage: Events to the eagerly awaiting public! After we cemented our feature-set in the Beta release, we have hunted down no less than 15 bugs, ranging from grammar to complete show-stoppers. We are very thankful for the support of the community as we worked together to create a DotNetNuke module that fits your needs, from the ground up, based on your suggestions. Read Article

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