Ok, old dog here, but willing to learn new tricks. Maybe the response to this thread will help folks in my 'state'.  I have DNN v040600 running on an xp pro workstation using sql2005, with asp.net 2.0, IIS v5.1.  I have vs2005, and just loaded vs2008 web developers, and the newer asp.net.

From what I can tell the News module is built with vs2008, and DNN is built with vs2005.  So, can someone give a step-by-step process on how to build the News module with that kind of setup.  I don't think the setup is all that 'abnormal', so a guide to the process would probably help others besides myself.

As previously mentioned in other threads, there are some stricter rules with the new version of the News module enforced with an xsd that can be relaxed, but there are some conditions to test, and I'd like to go through the process of testing changes in the code, but need to be able to recompile the module, as just making a change to the xsd will not complete the task.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Cheers

iWonder

I'm sorry I can't answer your question regarding setting up your development environment right now, but I have blogged about the changes that I had made to the xsd file here http://blogs.technicaone.com/post/2008/09/01/DotNetNuke-NewsFeeds-Module-40000-Not-ready-for-prime-time!.aspx which my help, it is however a quick and dirty fix.

Cheers

Craig

Craig,

Thanks for the link.  I enjoyed the piece.  I had the updates for the xsd in place, also changed the pubDate to NOT validate, but since I had to rebuild the News module, they were not picked up, and have since been able to make that change as you suggested in your blog. 

I'm going to be going over some other items, as well.  I've tried this change with a aggregating a couple of feeds with no issues, but it's still too early to call testing done.  There are so many varieties of feed types and variables to go through.  Still, I'm sure that relaxing the validation will be a step. 

I like what Peter has done with the module overall direction, yet, I know there is much more to do (he does too!). Just so much a single person can do, though.  I'd like to see if I can add the feature to add parameters from a list, like what is done in the XML/XSL module.  I can think of some that would be nice to have, like a sorting direction 'asc' or 'dsc'.  I can hard code the default xsl to do the sorting, but it would be much nicer to provide the option to specify it like the number of items to show.

Anyway, thanks for the response, and I'll be checking your blog, and updating mine with my results.  Also, thanks to Peter for doing the hard bits! Hat's off!!!