Mark Eckeard wrote:
Installing DNN and building modules for it are 2 entirely different things.
It sounds like an issue with the way the module is being created, not DNN itself. I've developed dozens of custom modules and I remember it being a little tricky at first.
Use Chritoc's template and follow the directions closely and it'll work. If you continue to have problems, please post what you did in detail and I'll try to help.
Mark
First of all, let me apologize for spamming the thread... the stupid website was chewing up my attempts to post and I didn't realize they'd actually gone through.
Mark, it's unclear if you're responding to my messages or the OP, but I wasn't trying to build a module, just a skin, and in truth I hadn't even done anything towards that end yet.
I downloaded the Visual Studio Starter Kit from *this* website, installed it, then I ran Visual Studio and created a new project from the template that was now available. Then, before I did anything else, I tried to run it. It didn't work. When VS tried to build the project, it gave about a dozen errors. This is fresh, out of the box, and it simply doesn't work.
There doesn't appear to be a simple "DNN skin" template anywhere in the VS "New Project" dialog.
Searching this website for "Chritoc" produces one result... this forum thread, but searching Google got me to where I think you intended... but since I'm not actually trying to build a module it doesn't seem applicable.