I'm finding it a burden to support the modules I've built on my customer and my sites because I do these upgrades by hand and now really must find out how to implement iUpgradeable properly. While I accept and understand that some of the documentation is not good, there is a distinct lack of a comprehensive site or doc to describe the upgradeable capabilities of DNN.  Clearly it works since many modules and the DNN Core do it- does anyone know how to do it?  What I want to be able to do:

• Package a version-controlled dnn module.  I know how to set up the .dnn file but what about how to remove and install files and scripts that change form version to version (the xxx.yyy.zzz.txt file?)
• Set up the 'new version available' image on the module definitions summary page.  The DNN Project modules can do this- is this capability reserved only for the DNN project modules, or is there a way to this myself for my modules?

 I've searched everywhere and although I can find a piece or a reference here and there, there's nothing definitive that fills me with confidence.

Any news on this?

I'm struggeling with a hand-made package 'composer', because the DNN 'create package' includes too much of not-needed files and too little of required files (like dll's). When I want to upgrade my module, I still have to uninstall and re-install the module. This causes the module to disappear in the page(s), so I also need to manually insert the module again on every page.

Please let me know if I'm missing something here, because this method is really time consuming.

Thanks in advance!

Hi EricVB,

Maybe, this is off-topic, but I will tell my story about my upgrading issues (with DNN 4.8.2) here.

1 Creating the package with DNN does not include all (or even any?) referenced dll files.
2 Creating the package with DNN does not include all dll files in the .dnn file.
3 Upgrading a modules throws a database error (I believe it tries to insert the module(definition?), but it already exists)

I have not used the 'create package' and 'upgrade' functionality for a while now, so please forgive me if I leave out the details.

Kind regards,

Willem