After 6 months in the wilderness (changed jobs), I am back in the DotNetNuke fold. I have convinced my boss to use SQL Server for web sites which means I can use DNN again. It seemed silly in hindsight to throw away over 2 years of DNN/ASP.NET experience in order to look at python and Ruby. :-)

I have developed lots of modules for internal use but I am now looking to develop modules to sell commercially too.

I am looking to use DNN 5 as my base line version for new modules.

Have module development techniques changed in version 5?

What else has changed in the last 6 months?

Regards

Hi Mike,

There have been a number of changes regarding packaging that are of interest, Charles blog @ http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/825/BlogID/15/Default.aspx is the best way to learn about these - http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/825/EntryId/1847/The-New-Extension-Installer-Manifest-Part-1-Introduction.aspx details the additional manifest items that you can choose to use - obviously at this moment most people simply develop modules as they always did, as the market for 5.0+ modules is very small compared with the overall market size.

If you're developing modules for 5.0+ then there are a few things that you can use as well that can help with development as both jquery http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/825/EntryId/2009/DotNetNuke-5-0-Now-with-jQuery.aspx and linq support http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/825/EntryId/2125/How-to-prepare-your-DNN-5-site-to-run-Linq-to-SQL-modules.aspx are now built in and available.

Cathal