I'm going mad here so I hope someone can help me out.

I have used DNN in the past but this is my first look at developing a custom module.

I have a working (source) installation of DNN and have installed the Module templates into Visual Web Developer Express. After working through the GuestBook tutorial and getting this working without any great problems I decided to create a module as a training exercise for myself. The UI would be pretty similar to the GuestBook but oulling data from my tables/s-procs. I generated the necessary files using the template and then set about creating my table and stored procedures. I have updated the DataProvider and SqlDataProvider classes as well as the Controller/Info files. All seemed to be going well at this point.

I have updated the DataList in the UI as required to display the information but when I Build/Debug and view the page all I get is a list of [CONTENT] records being displayed in place of the actual data.

I have added a label to the page and linked this to the same data source as the datalist and it shows that the data is being pulled out correctly. I have compared each of my files with the coresponding one in the GuestBook example and I cannot locate the error.

I'm probably going to junk this test module and start again but I sat there for hours last night trying to sort this out and I hate not understanding why something is not working.

I have screenshots and code available if needed.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for your response.

The .ascx was generated by the Template and does have an ItemDataBound event (below) which is fired (if I put a label on the page and assign it a value in this method it does display). It's obviously not assigning the value but as I'm still finding my way around the inner workings of DNN I cannot see what it is doing.

        Protected Sub lstContent_ItemDataBound(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataListItemEventArgs) Handles lstContent.ItemDataBound
            Dim strContent As String = strTemplate
            Dim strValue As String

            ' add content to template
            Dim objProperties As ArrayList = Common.Utilities.CBO.GetPropertyInfo(GetType(DNNTest1Info))
            Dim intProperty As Integer
            Dim objPropertyInfo As PropertyInfo
            For intProperty = 0 To objProperties.Count - 1
                objPropertyInfo = CType(objProperties(intProperty), PropertyInfo)
                If strContent.IndexOf("[" & objPropertyInfo.Name.ToUpper & "]") <> -1 Then
                    strValue = Server.HtmlDecode(DataBinder.Eval(e.Item.DataItem, objPropertyInfo.Name).ToString())
                    strContent = strContent.Replace("[" & objPropertyInfo.Name.ToUpper & "]", strValue)
                End If
            Next intProperty

            ' assign the content
            Dim lblContent As Label = CType(e.Item.FindControl("lblContent"), Label)
            lblContent.Text = strContent
        End Sub

I suppose this is one of the problems with using Templates - you really don't know what is going on and if you want to do something slightly different then you have to dig deeper.

If you can spot the problem in the above then please let me know.

Cheers

Oh what a muppet I am . The original template had a field called Content which I had replaced with my own field. Changing the Template.Text value to [RECORDTEXT] in the resource file sorted it.

I've taken a look at the DAL+ method of module development and this makes more sense to me than the template does. I've already created a module using the tutorial and created the test one that I wanted to experiment with.

Thanks for your input!