Anybody have any words of wisdom before I take my website with custom modules using purchased telerik code, to the modern DNN era?  I have a couple of concerns before upgrading to the community version of the latest DNN.

1.  Will I still have access to the source code for the community version of DNN, and the standard modules, in case I need to tweak or modify something?

2.  Will I lose any capability that I had in the 4.9.5 version by moving to a "community edition" with less features?

3.  Since the default portal code now uses telerik controls, will there be any issues with my custom modules that use older version of the telerik controls that I purchased separately?

4.  I use a Content Manager module that allows me to let registered users edit some of my HTML content, and then submit it for approval by an administrator so that the portal stays current.  Does the community edition allow this now as a standard feature?

5.  Any known issues with any of these modules being compatible with DNN 6.1 (or not having an upgraded version)?  My dozens of custom modules aren't shown below.  I just want to get an idea of how much work this migration will take for my portal.

	DotNetNuke	DotNetNuke Community Edition	04.09.05
	[Skin Objects]	Skin Objects are User Controls which can be used to provide custom functionality to your Skin files.
	Account Login	Allows users to login to the portal.	01.00.00
	Active Forums	Active Forums - Forum module for DotNetNuke	04.03.05
	Active Forums What's New	Display the most recent topics or replies from selected forums on any page within your site.	01.04.05
	ActiveForumViewer	This module allows you to display additional instances of particular group or forum on your site.	05.00.05
	Announcements	This module renders a list of announcements. Each announcement includes title, text and a "read more" link, and can be set to automatically expire after a particular date.	03.01.00
	BannerAdvertisers	This is the advertiser module that is designed to work with the Smoke Ranch BannerDisplay Module.	05.01.05
	BannerDisplay	This is the banner module that is designed to work with the Smoke Ranch BannerAdvertisers Module. Place this module where you want banner ads to appear.	05.01.04
	Banners	Banner advertising is managed through the Vendors module in the Admin tab. You can select the number of banners to display as well as the banner type.	01.00.00
	BDPDT	ByDesign PDT Common Services Layer	02.10.01
	Bi4ce_GoMap	A DotNetNuke Google Maps Integration module with full database integration	02.09.03
	BTBAmazonRelatedProducts	Description	01.00.00
	Contacts	This module renders contact information for a group of people, for example a project team. Contacts includes an edit page, which allows authorized users to edit the Contacts data stored in the database.	03.01.00
	Content Approval	The Content Manager allows you to manage web content workflow, as well as control versioning of the content updated.	04.00.00
	Content Manager	The Content Manager allows you to manage web content workflow, as well as control versioning of the content updated.	05.00.00
	Documents	This module renders a list of documents, including links to browse or download the document. Documents includes an edit page, which allows authorized users to edit the information about the Documents (for example, a friendly title) stored in the SQL database.	03.01.00
	DONEIN_NET\Google_Sitemaps	This module renders a Google Sitemap of the current portal.	02.05.00
	Events	This module renders a list of upcoming events, including time and location. Individual events can be set to automatically expire from the list after a particular date. Events includes an edit page, which allows authorized users to edit the Events data stored in the SQL database.	03.01.00
	Evotiva.BackupScript	BackupScript allows you to perform a full site backup & restore (no matter if the database is local or remote): the database (any size is supported, all BLOB columns are supported) plus all files and folders on the site (including \portals, \bin, \desktopmodules, web.config file, etc.). The database is scripted as standard, commented and readable .SQL files!. The module can build all the datababase objects and recreate the data. The backup can be scheduled, among other options.	03.00.05
	FAQs (reloaded)	Frequently Asked Questions V2	01.06.00
	FAQSearch	A sub module of Advanced FAQ(ZLDNN_FAQ)	01.00.00
	Feed Explorer	Allows users to browse RSS feeds using a tabbed user interface	01.00.00
	Feedback	Feedback allows visitors to send messages to the Administrator of the portal.	03.01.00
	Google Adsense	Allows you to create Google Adsense ads on your site	01.00.01
	GoogleMap	Google Map module with geocoder combines the new Google Map API v2 with an address geocoder to plot map points and make mapping easy with DotNetNuke 3.x and 4.x.	02.02.04
	GoogleMapSearch	Jetkey Google Map Search allows you to perform local searches and plot search results on your map near your center point.	01.00.00
	IFrame	IFrame is an Internet Explorer browser feature which allows you to display content from another website within a frame on your site.	03.01.00
	Image	This module renders an image using an HTML IMG tag. The module simply sets the IMG tags src attribute to a relative or absolute URL, so the image file does not need to reside within the portal. The module also exposes height and width attributes, which permits you to scale the image. Image includes an edit page, which persists these settings to the portals configuration file.	03.01.00
	Inventua - FlashPlayer	Inventua FlashPlayer	03.00.07
	Inventua - PassThroughSource	Inventua PassThroughSource	03.00.03
	Inventua - PassThroughTarget	Inventua PassThroughTarget	03.01.01
	Links	This module renders a list of hyperlinks. Links includes an edit page, which allows authorized users to edit the Links data stored in the SQL database.	04.00.01
	Live Content	Live Content streamlines content presentation by overlaying it on current page. Inspired from lightbox effect, overlay images, videos, text/html content, dotnetnuke modules, and external content on current page. Driven by CSS and Layout Templates to create Image/Video Galleries, Product Showcase, ToolTips, Module Popper, etc... Description doesn't justify this module, see the demo and experience it	01.02.00
	Markit::SlideShow	Markit SlideShow is the most powerful SlideShow module for DotNetNuke used to display your featured articles, stories or products like, Yahoo! Movies MSN Movies or CNet.com. This module is a Javascript/CSS based (No Flash Required) only slideshow system combining text and images to create "slides", as well as (slide) navigation. These "slides" are being rotated one after the other with various fade effects, while text can be displayed/integrated anywhere inside the slideshow. The slideshow's navigation features play/pause and previous/next buttons, as well as individual slide selection buttons for full control by the user/visitor of your site. there are lots of controls included.	04.03.02
	News Feeds (RSS)	News Feed allows you to consume syndicated news feeds in Rich Site Summary (RSS) format.	03.01.00
	Open-SearchEngineAdmin	Open-SearchEngine Administration of spider's Attributes	02.00.00
	Open-SearchInput	Search Input interface for XSSearchEngine	02.00.00
	Open-SearchResults	Search Results interface for XSSearchEngine	02.00.00
	Open-SearchSpiderSettings	Search Spider Settings interface for XSSearchEngine	01.00.00
	Orizonti_NukeFeeds	Orizonti NukeFeeds - Module for aggregating RSS and Atom news feeds. Includes db caching of feeds.	01.31.00
	Redirector	Will redirect a viewer to the specified URL. Only a logged in user with Edit permissions will not be redirected.	01.00.00
	Reports	The Reports Module allows users to quickly display data retrieved from many data sources. An extensible architecture allows the use of custom Data Sources and Visualization systems to display data from any tabular data source, in many ways.	05.00.00
	Search Input	The Search Input module provides the ability to submit a search to a given search results module.
	Search Results	The Search Reasults module provides the ability to display search results.
	Snapsis PageBlaster	Web Optimization, Page Caching, Compression, and Replacements dynamically per page.	03.02.00
	Survey	Survey allows you to create custom surveys to obtain public feedback	03.01.00
	Text/HTML	This module renders a block of HTML or Text content. The Html/Text module allows authorized users to edit the content either inline or in a separate administration page. The content is stored in the database. According to module settings, tokens can be used, that get replaced during display.	04.09.05
	UCanUse.UserAttributes	UCanUse User Attributes DotNetNuke Module	02.09.06
	UCU Core	UCanUse Core Framework	01.09.00
	User Account	Allows users to register and manage their account.	01.00.00
	User Defined Table	User Defined Table allows you to create a custom data table for managing tabular information.	03.01.00
	UsersOnline	Users Online allows you to see who is online in your portal, and see membership counts	03.01.00
	View EMail	Advanced E-Mail and News Manager View Email Module for DNN 2.0	02.00.00
	Visitor Tracking Plugin	This module allows you can integrate Google Analytics and Ms Bing search engine with your dnn website easily, both module and skin object are supplied.	04.00.00
	XML/XSL	This module renders the result of an XML/XSL transform. The XML and XSL files are identified by their UNC paths in the xmlsrc and xslsrc properties of the module. The Xml/Xsl module includes an edit page, which persists these settings to the SQL database.	03.01.00
	ZLDNN_FAQ	This module enhances the core FAQs module that allow you to manage a list of Frequently Asked Questions and their corresponding Answers. It allows user to submit questions. Admin users can assign roles who can answer questions. It supports email notification. It also supports features such as pageable display, ajax, categories etc.	04.02.00

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I'm too poor for anything other than the community version

Also, is the source code available for Active Forums now? I'd like to port my old forum into the new standard Active Forum version if the code is now available.

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I'm too poor for anything other than the community version

great to hear about your success.

Regarding your questions:

1. All versions Community Editionsm provide full access to source code for all DNN code (not included Telerik controls and other 3rd party components included). From the module point of view, only admin modules and HTML module are still bundled. you may download updated versions for all other formerly bundled modules from codeplex.
2. I am not aware of any missing features in DNN 6 CE copared to 4.9.5, except deprecated memory caching provider and compression
3. Using the redirect clause in Web.config, all modules should work without a second set of Telerik to be used
4. HTML module CE version has now a "staging" workflow, which allows to create new versions and "publish" it later.
   Other modules are not affected
5. For all 3rd party modules, please make sure to use latest versions! (I remember at least one of them had a severe security issue years ago). Regarding core modules: UserDefinedTable has been renamed to Form and List (dnnfnl.codeplex.com) with great new features.

 

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Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

   

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