I'm totally new to DNN and have a basic question that will help me get grounded. 

What's is the best technique for creating a page that allows the users to enter custom data that will be persisted with Entity Framework?  Since this page will be for my own personal consumption,  building a full blow module seems like overkill.  Thanks in advance.

Clint,

Thanks for you help, I'll check out that module.  

 Here's what I want to do:

1) Have users enter specific types of information on my site

2) Store the information in SQL server in a table that I design

3) Have a scheduled task index the data into lucene so other users can search it on my site.

 I'm a C# developer new to DNN and CMS's in general so I need to get my head around the DNN paradigm. Without DNN I would use EF to create the business object layer to persist to SQL Server and write a sheduled task to do the lucene indexing based on dirty flags.   

Any pointers how to accomplish this type of functionality in DNN would be greatly appreciated.

 

Great reference Cllint! I totally forgot about Scott's module development series. That is a must see if you want to have any understanding about modules. Even if you aren't developing your own modules, this series will show you how modules interact with the core and you will have a much easier time configuring other 3rd party modules. 

I would play around with the Form and List module like Clint said, put there are also a few really great 3rd party modules in the DotNetNuke Store that do the same thing as well. 

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