Hi folks

It occurs to me that this is a very basic question and ought to have been documented before 5.0 was released and for sure it will be covered in books but surfing Amazon I see that Professional DotNetNuke 5 is only due to be published on 10 March 09, DotNetNuke 5 User's Guide on 1 July 09 and Professional DotNetNuke Module Programming on 10 March 09. This last book has an Appendix devoted to the answer to my question.

So has anyone addressed it in blogs, forum posts or elsewhere already?

If not, and you have the same question, maybe it is possible to find a way through the dearth of documentation by creating a module manifest for an existing module and working it out like that? That is login as host, select module definitions, click the edit (pencil) icon beside a standard module like text/html, click Create Module link at the bottom of the page and follow the process to generate a module manifest to unzip and study.

It seems a heck of a lot like reinventing the wheel. Has anyone a better suggestion?

Regards

Geoffrey

Hi Sebastian

I followed Mitchell Sellars video precisely and did give NETWORK SERVICE full permission on all folders.

Here is a piece of my manifest:

<dotnetnuke version="3.0" type="Module">
  <folders>
    <folder>
      <name>Interface</name>
      <friendlyname>Interface</friendlyname>
      <foldername>Interface</foldername>
      <modulename>Interface</modulename>
      <description>This Yala module lists the names and descriptions of the Interfaces of the Complex Relationship.</description>
      <version>01.00.00</version>
      <businesscontrollerclass>MheLtd.Modules.Interface.SqlDataProvider.InterfaceController</businesscontrollerclass>
      <modules>
        <module>
          <friendlyname>Interface</friendlyname>
          <cachetime>0</cachetime>
          <controls>
            <control>
              <title>Interfaces</title>
              <src>DesktopModules/Interface/ListInterface.ascx</src>
              <type>View</type>
            </control>
            <control>
              <key>Edit</key>
              <title>Edit Interface</title>
              <src>DesktopModules/Interface/EditInterface.ascx</src>
              <type>Edit</type>
            </control>
            <control>
              <key>Order</key>
              <title>Order Interfaces</title>
              <src>DesktopModules/Interface/OrderInterface.ascx</src>
              <type>Edit</type>
            </control>
          </controls>
        </module>
      </modules>
      <files>
        <file>
          <path>App_LocalResources</path>
          <name>EditInterface.ascx.resx</name>
        </file>
        <file>

Any suggestions? Am I doing something wrong, here?

I will try entering a module manually and working through it that way.

All thoughts most welcome.

Kind regards

Geoffrey