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integrating existing ASP.NET 2.0 Web Application into DDN

9/5/2007 12:03 AM

marksweat

Joined: 8/24/2007

Posts: 2

integrating existing ASP.NET 2.0 Web Application into DDN

I've got an existing ASP.NET 2.0 application. I'm interested in running it under DDN to take advantage of all the features of the portal such as navigation, menus, security, banners, logging etc... The application is C# / SQL Server based, has about 20 different pages and 30 database tables. I'm wondering where to begin. Do I need to create one or more modules out of the applications? I'm sure this question has been asked and answered many times.

Thanks,

--Mark

9/5/2007 3:55 AM

Sebastian Leupold

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Joined: 3/8/2004

Posts: 46212

Re: integrating existing ASP.NET 2.0 Web Application into DDN

yes, the smoothest integration would be done by converting it into modules, however, depending on the complexitiy of your application, an iFrame integration might be a considerable alternative.

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9/5/2007 4:28 AM

marksweat

Joined: 8/24/2007

Posts: 2

Re: integrating existing ASP.NET 2.0 Web Application into DDN

Thanks for the advice, just what I was looking for. I will review the docs on IFrame and then decide which course to follow.

--Mark

9/5/2007 5:48 AM

Armand Datema

Joined: 9/16/2003

Posts: 787

Re: integrating existing ASP.NET 2.0 Web Application into DDN

I use a differnt method.

I build my normal asp.net applications with usercontrols the aspx pages itself are empty. If you do this also then you could look at xepient open smart module. This is a module that you add to a apge and then you can select a userontrol to use.

if you want to have the abillity to have special settigns for a module that you can change per tab ( your 20 different pages ) then susing rflection it recognizes your public variables and you have ther abillity to fill these in as textboxes or checkboxes

Private _QueryParams As String

Private _AltTitleInfo As Boolean

Public Property QueryParams() As String

Get

Return _QueryParamsEnd Get

_QueryParams = Value

Set(ByVal Value As String)End Set

End Property

Public Property AltTitleInfo() As Boolean

Get

Return _AltTitleInfoEnd Get

_AltTitleInfo = Value

Set(ByVal Value As Boolean)End Set

You can then progra this as you normally do, addthe slected usercontrols as modules to the pages that correspond with the pages you have now, navigate between them by redirecting to the correct tab, using querystrings orsessions for the data you need in your application and of you go

I used this in over 200 portals. We have our normal application that manages all our data and we use dnn as a framework to show this on the web. So only the view part of the modues. For that i have build a control framework that displays all the aspect of our news modules ( we aggregate and enrich news from various sources ) and i can use the usercontrols on every tab i want and just set the various settings per cleint per portal

End Propertythis will give you 2 inputs, one textbox and one checkbox.

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