I try to follow Shaun's instructions and everything seems to work fine until I add the Widget module onto the home page, I get the following exceptions (please note that my web application is using HTTP - IIS instead of Cinassi):

Error: Widget is currently unavailable.
DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at YourCompany.Modules.Widget.ViewWidget.lstContent_ItemDataBound(Object sender, DataListItemEventArgs e) in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\DNNTest\DesktopModules\Widget\ViewWidget.ascx.cs:line 136 at System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataList.OnItemDataBound(DataListItemEventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataList.CreateItem(Int32 itemIndex, ListItemType itemType, Boolean dataBind, Object dataItem) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataList.CreateControlHierarchy(Boolean useDataSource) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.BaseDataList.OnDataBinding(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.WebControls.BaseDataList.DataBind() at YourCompany.Modules.Widget.ViewWidget.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\DNNTest\DesktopModules\Widget\ViewWidget.ascx.cs:line 115 --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

I put a break point in ViewWidgent.ascx.cs and see the colWidgets collection actually has some data (Count = 1), but the exception happens right after the line:

lstContent.DataBind();

Please help. Thanks.

The problem goes away, however when you add new entries the template entry still shows up, not the new entry. So what is the solution?  I am just trying to follow the directions to create a custom module and cannot get it to work because of bugs in this program?

I have successfully worked through the Widget module creation demo (several times) without these errors...

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