The data model for your app does not appear to be too complex compared to other applications that I have seen integrated into DotNetNuke.  The biggest issue when looking at the integration is how well your business logic has been decoupled from the data access and presentation layers.  Having used an MVC framework, I would guess that the separation already exists.  You will obviously require some changes to how you think about coding the UI and how you handle navigation, but those are generally not that complicated in an MVC app.

HI

Most my work is done integrating big custom apps in a dnn environment. Because we use a number of external parties to develop for us as well not everyone knows how to develop in DNN. I just let all the apps develop in usercontrols and as soon a that work I can use it in dnn by a simple dnn module that loads usercontrols

In the user controls public variables are defined that are read by the dnn module using reflections to get acces to it. In the dnn module these are used as the admin screen so you can the set the variables per module. At first I have used the xepient smart module for this but later because our needs grow and the xepient modules didnt do import and export I build my own that does somethign more. But it helped us for quite some years.

IN the usercontrosl its very easy t import dotnetnuke and get all you need from portals settings users etc. This way you canm keep your excisiting code and coders base and just integrate them yourself.

Next to my own freelance company I work for a company that provides services on an ASP basis and using this method we have build 100+ portals this way. Social networking features can also be very easy implemnted this way. Ans you can keep your excisitng coders and dont have to get unknown dnn developers or waite time getting every new developer or freelncer to learns to code the dnn way ( that was why I went this way )

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