I have a skin object that works when you enter it in the ascx file. But when you add it to the html file, it fails to parse the object into the ascx file.it fails to register and to translate the token. There is a skin.xml file, and the parser reads it, because when I make an error in the xml file, the parser will give an error warning.

It used to work under DNN 4.

Two questions:

(1) I have been searching for instructions on the creation of skin tokens, but found nothing that explained the process. Can anyone direct me to apropriate documentation? Installing the extension no longer adds the skin token to the table SkinTokens (which I guess it should do)

(2) I would like to check and eventually step through the functions involved in parsing the skins. The DNN source code is pretty new to me and I'm still trying to find my way in it. I've done a search for "SkinTokens" through the source files but the only reference I find is in the SqlDataProviders for 05.01.00 adding a column to the table. Can anyone tell me where in the source the parsing happens?

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The one-eyed in the land of the blind.

 That much I know.But sometimes this is not enough. I am cleaning up the source code of an extension that worked under DNN 4 but has some problems under DNN 5. This is one of those.



However, while cleaning the code (I currently reduced the obsolete warnings from 102 to 70), I may have unknowingly corrected a part of that problem: Now my skin produces an error when applied to a page, which it formerly did not do, the skin token went unchanged through the parsing process. Now it has processed it but with an error. But that means that now I have some firmer ground to find the issue. I have to research this more closely, but I think by the end of the week, I will have solved at least one of the (3) outstanding issues.

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The one-eyed in the land of the blind.

This is mostly an issue if the skin object was not correctly installed

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