Hi all.

I really want to try out DNN for a new project, so I am trying to download DNN to be used in VS2005. I have downloaded the "Starter Kit" and installed it, but that's about as far as I am able to go.

Is'nt it ment to give me a new DNN project type? It gives me a .zip file in my Visual Web Developer template folder. Tryied to copy that into a VS2005 folder and create a new project based on that, but it does not compile...

Help: Please give me a "dummy" tuorial as how I am able to set up VB2005 for DNN.

Regards
Carsten

Thanks for the link! I will look at it as soon as possible.
I would however also like to have an entire portal (including source code, components etc.) in my VS2005. That's whats been causing me problems. I can't seen to make it work.

Hi,

Download the starter kit and run it, it's a .vsi file (DotNetNuke_04.08.04_StarterKit.vsi),

it will expand itself in proper directory under VS 2005 templates projects folder, for exp:

...\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual Web Developer\VisualBasic

Then run your VS (I tested it with VS 2005 with SP1 and also with VWD Express), Select:

File->New->Web Site ...

Then in the "New Web Site" window, you need to choose Visual Basic as your language

to be able to see "DotNetNuke Application Frame ... " under My Template zone in your window,

Now choose it and select a name for it and choose your location, I prefered to choose "File System"

for location with an customized name, then click on OK, it will take a few minutes, depend of your

system speed (Generally). After that, you will see the DNN page in your VS and you can build it

by Ctrl+F5,  after a while you will installation page on your Internet Explorer, You should choose

AUTO mode for installation to get the result properly and it will take a few minutes to install all the

modules and prepare the SQL and ... properly to run your portal. Hope it helps, Cheers.