Using MS Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition 8.0.50727.42 I have a module created and working.  I originall had to add the new module definition manually which pointed to the .ascx file.   Now I want to create a installable module (.dnn) that I can send to someone and they can install and get working without.

First off I went to the module and Created Private Assembly which creates the .dnn file.  I put all the App_Code files (2 .vb files), Desktopfiles (.ascx and .vb files) and .dnn file into a zip file.   I then try to add new module using this .zip file and get the following error: 'The 'version' element is invalid - The value '1.0' is invalid according to its datatype 'versionNumber' - The Pattern constraint failed.'

I am wondering if I need to create my codebehind files into a dll instead of using the .vb files.   Not sure how I just create a dll just for these files?   Do I have to basically create a new VS2005 site and can't just add to App_Code and DesktopFiles folder?  Is there a setting in VS2005 that says create dll or not?

Below is how I have setup my files to develop the module.

http://localhost/DotNetNuke_2/
App_Code
 -PR
   -PRP.vb
   -PRP2.vb
DesktopModules
 -PR
  -PRForm.ascx
  -PRForm.ascx.vb

Have a look at this tutorial

http://www.adefwebserver.com/DotNetNukeHELP/DNN_PackageModule/

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It ended up importing correctly.  The issue was with my version number.   I had 1.1 but needed to be in the format of 01.01.00 and things worked great.