I am evaluating DNN for the development of an in-house intranet.  Years ago I worked with a predecessor to DNN (PortalVBVS) so I have a clue how things work, but when it comes to creating new modules I am confused and don't know where to start.  I wish I could attend the sessions at DevConnections next week - I asked but was turned down. :(

I started with Chris Hammond's Module Development Webinar, downloaded his VB templates, but I can't get it to create a project becuase IIS refuses to create/configure a virtual directory.    I am running XP, that might be the problem (nothing I can do there, corporate policy).   I left a message on his blog seeking assistance.

I found a DNN Community Starter Kit, looks like it installed some templates in my VS2010 folder but have no idea how to use it.

Is Mitchel Sellers book a goot starting point?

This is for a corporate site, so we dont' need to worry about distributing to other companies.    Rigth now I am the only developer, but we nee to plan for multiple developers.   I realize there are likely multiple paths - I'm just a bit overwelmed trying to find a direction.   Any ideas/tips would be greatly appreciated.

TIA,
Lou

I am running it on a standalone XP Pro system, and my user is an admin so it looks like I should be good there.      When I was watching Chris Hammond's video his system didn't ask him anything about setting up the virtual directory when he created his project, however he was running on Windows 7 so I wonder if that is the root cause of my issues.   According to his docs XP won't allow me to run the site when I type http://dnndev in the browser due to limitations in Xp's version of IIS.     I am going to set up a virtual machine running Server 2003 (or perhaps 7 Pro if our MSDN license comes in today) and try it there - gotta love VMWare. :)  

The host system is running 7 Home Premium 64-bit (I couldn't find a decent laptop running 7 Pro off the shelf :(  ).   I'm thinking about doing an update to get it to 7 Pro.   Would I run into problems with DNN/module development running the slight-stripped-down version of IIS on 7 Home Premium?

At the risk of starting a holy war, from everything I have read it appears that the path I want to take is to create a Web Application Project,   That way I dont' have recomplie/deploy the entire site when adding/modifying a custom module.   Custom modules are going to be very important to us - I have a list of several I am dying to get started on...     My post on Chris' blog hasn't been approved yet, so for now I will take a look at the VB Compiled template and see what I can do with it.

Thanks for the info!
Lou