Hi All.

I think i'm a well educated and trained person working for more then 20 years now in the wider range if IT-Business. Started as programmer and 3rd-Level-supporter at Borland, IT-Manager in different companies and now as an IT-Consultant. So, i would say, i know what to do and know what i'm talking about.

But with programming a module for DNN i have some problems and just want to know whether i'm the only one or, if not (what i hope of course) how to solve this ... ahm .... problems. Worst would be, if the problem is sitting in front of the screen.

I'm not talking about the theory of programming in VB, not about "how should i do this or that".... i can write programs. My problem is, when it comes to the specialities regarding DNN.

I found some posts here telling me e.g. that i have to use the starter-kit version for which version i would like to program. Or that i have to do this and that, then these tasks....i read the pdfs from this website here, all (?) tutorials from www.adefwebserver.com, some other stuf... but i won't get any clearer.

The most tutorials or "HowTos.." are sometimes telling different stories for the same task.

When it is so simple, beside the fact that one shouls be able to code at all, some may say, why the hack is there no EASY step-by-step explanation, beginning at the very start for newbies like me (in programming! I'm with DNN since almost 3 years now!).

I don't need a 600 pages book on how to setup VS on Vista, how to set security on directories...but what i would like to read on some pages would be:
- which version to use for what goal (starter-kis vs. "normal install package") and which version
- what to do outside of VS or VWD but in the installed development enviroment of DNN? There are some diffs between 4.9.5 to 5.1.4 to 5.2.0
- where to store which files and WHY
- how to compile my source codes into one or if not possible more dlls (struggling with this escpecially, look at this thread on page 2)

Again, i'm not into a training on VB but on how to use it as easy as possible for building modules for DNN.

I would be happy about writing a document (or even a booklet) if someone could lead me thru all of this but does not want to document it.....let's work together for all of us here.

Last, but not least, i'm not unhappy with DNN, i installed several sites for customers, having my own private page for 3 years now up and running and believe it is a great product. And hey, there is no, i repeat NO software out there without errors. The advantage of DNN is the price (he he he) and the huge community which in fact helped me a lot in the past, too, when i had some probs.

But programming? Uh.... i have some great ideas (nothing availabe yet in the internet but asked for from several customers!) but cannot build them.

Allright, thanks in advance for any feedback and a hopefully nice discussion.

Kai

Well you should really have a background of ASP.NET and VB or C#... Well anything .NET.
Plenty of tutorials on Visual Studio available.

As far as specific DNN modules you could do no worse than try the book advertised to the right of your original post.

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Baatezu,
Interseting post, thanks.

I am using VS2008 SP1, C#, Vista, DNN 5.1.4.

I'm trying to follow your "steps" and ran to the following issue in the line:

Replace System.Web.UI.UserControl with DotNetNuke.Entities.Modules.PortalModuleBase

using DotNetNuke.Entities.Modules. gives me the following options : Actions, Communications, Definitions.

Which one is correct, or maybe you have typo?

Chris