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HomeHomeOur CommunityOur CommunityGeneral Discuss...General Discuss...Can I use Microsoft Access with DNN?Can I use Microsoft Access with DNN?
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6/30/2009 10:49 AM
 

I just want to know how I can use Microsoft Access with DNN. If you have any information on this, please let me know. Thanks.

 
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6/30/2009 11:10 AM
 

Actually in the DNN 2 days access was the default database provider for a while.

If you want to download DNN2 sure. But I would highly recommend avoid trying to use Access with DNN, use the free SQL Express.


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6/30/2009 11:16 AM
 

there are modules to access MS Access data, if needed, some for display, others allow to enter data.

However you cannot use MS Access to store DNN database inside, as Chris pointed out.


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6/30/2009 11:25 AM
 

Thanks guys. Specifically, I have a client who wants a blog written in asp.net 2.0 and must use ms access. I came across dotnetnuke because it can supply a blog, and also it is written in .net but I was wondering about ms access. if DNN cannot do the job, do you know what could?

 

Thanks.

 

Sebastian Leupold wrote

there are modules to access MS Access data, if needed, some for display, others allow to enter data.

However you cannot use MS Access to store DNN database inside, as Chris pointed out.

 
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6/30/2009 11:42 AM
 

"who wants a blog written in asp.net 2.0 and must use ms access"

So, if I understand correctly, your client wants you to write a blog-type site or module but wants you to store the blog's data in msaccess? is that correct?  or am I mistaken and your client has an existing blog sire or module that uses msaccess to store it's data.

If it's the former, and you will be writing a new module for use in DotNetNuke, you can certainly store your module's data in msaccess or any other database. DotNetNuke stores all of it's data in a Sql Server database, but each module can program it's own datasource.

If you want to take advantage of the exisitng blog module, all of the source code is available, all you would have to do is modify the data layer to read/write the blog data to an access database.  Be aware though that creating a custom version of a core module will make upgrades difficult.

I would be interested to know why  msaccess is a requirement?  is it because of your client's hosting environment? do they not provide Sql Server? maybe a different host would be a better solution :)

 
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