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12/17/2010 11:53 AM

Jim Spartan

www.allcityheatandair.com
Joined: 12/16/2010

Posts: 2

Re: Thank you.

Thank you for the warm welcome Cathal and the link. Looks like there are many resources listed on that page. Adding it to my weekend reading list.

Take care

12/17/2010 4:26 PM

cathal connolly

www.cathal.co.uk
Joined: 4/9/2003

Posts: 9676

Re: Thank you.

As you're from a php background you may find razor of interest http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/W... (we'll be adding it in 5.6.1). It's a simple syntax which allows interleaving of html and code on the same page (similar to how classic asp/php work), and ships with a lot of helpers for simple tasks including database work e.g.

@{
    var db = Database.Open("SmallBakery");
    var selectQueryString = "SELECT * FROM Product ORDER BY Name";
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <title>Small Bakery Products</title>
   <style>
       table, th, td {
         border: solid 1px #bbbbbb;
         border-collapse: collapse;
         padding: 2px;
       }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
   <h1>Small Bakery Products</h1>
   <table>
       <thead>
           <tr>
               <th>Id</th>
               <th>Product</th>
               <th>Description</th>
       <th>Price</th>
           </tr>
       </thead>
       <tbody>
           @foreach(var row in db.Query(selectQueryString)){
            <tr>
               <td>@row.Id</td>
                   <td>@row.Name</td>
                   <td>@row.Description</td>
...and so on

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12/19/2010 6:25 PM

Ky Lane

Joined: 9/24/2006

Posts: 223

Re: Thank you.

Jim Spartan wrote:
This praise is good to hear and encouraging to someone like myself just getting started with asp.net. Coming from a PHP / SQL background so I'm ramping up for the learning curve.

Jim, you wont regret it. DNN is simply awesome. It still has its bugs and idiocyncracies, but overall I think its tops. Ive actually convinced my new boss to let me teach it at university instead of wordpress and joomla - as theyre neither a proper CMS system, more a blog and forum (respectively) hammered into a CMS kinda shape. Plus, DNN is easier for designers to work with. Im no programmer at all.. far from. I can fiddle with code and usually get it to do what I want, but otherwise; Im just a web designer - and I get around DNN quite easily.

The only gripe I have (and I hope the DNN lads are listening) is some kind of quality control on snowcovered. Have had too many dramas from modules that are half written, and cause me more drama than theyre worth.

Otherwise, enjoy!

12/20/2010 12:13 AM

Ky Lane

Joined: 9/24/2006

Posts: 223

Re: Thank you.

If you say so :)

12/20/2010 11:28 PM

Sebastian Leupold

www.dnnwerk.de
Joined: 3/8/2004

Posts: 46212

Re: Thank you.

I mainly love DNN because of its great community of independent developers and designers. There are even so many great free enhancements by talented 3rd party developers, which significantly improve the quality and usability of the community edition, that I am able just to name my favorites:

CkEditor Provider (dnnckeditor.codeplex.com) by "The Watcha"
improved dnnWerk Rad Editor (radeditor.codeplex.com) Provider by Philipp Becker (triaged to be integrated in DNN 5.6.2)
up to date module action module by The Watcha (dnnmoduleactions.codeplex.com)
Effority UserDirectory (userdirectory.codeplex.com) by Benjamin Hermann and Oliver Dombniak
Integration of YAF - a really great working Forums module (dnnyafnet.codeplex.com) by the Watcha
Greatly improved page administration module (dnnpageadmin.codeplex.com) by Philipp Becke

Those are only some of the contributions by our German user group members (which includes also other core team members Stefan Cullmann and Matthias Schlomann).

dnn-Europe.net is the European network of DNN professionals - the largest organization of DNN integrators, developers and more.

Our members also provide other great enhancements:

David Lee is author of NB_Store (nb_store.codeplex.com), one of the best ecommerce solutions
Timo Breumelhoff provides many great skinning enhancements at dnnskinextensions.codeplex.com
YAML for DNN skinning (yaml.dnn.ch) by 2sic
Helferlein Forms (www.helferlein.com) is the best free forms module for DNN

and there are many more (even some I am not aware of)...

But it is not only Europe contributing, there are great community members just opposite the globe:

Scott McCulloch (www.ventrian.com) doesn't offer his module for free, but you get the best modules for a very moderate price
Nina Meyers offers a number of free skins at www.dnnskins.com
Bruce is owner of www.ifinity.com.au and THE expert for SEO

From Southern America, Locopon provides a great, working multilingual solution at dnn.tiendaboliviana.com

Even in Nothern America, there are great developers ;)

regardless of its name, SQLGridSelectView is a great extension by Paul Scarlett
last, and definitely not least, Oliver Hine's extensions need to be listed - some of them I have been involved myself and I love work with Oliver:
- Upload Dropbox - if you need to upload large files to your site
- Advanced Google Analytics with improved segmentation
- his Weather module is a legend, AFAIK...
- the advanced permission provider provides the community with granular permissions
- advanced workflow modules outperform some features of commercial editions
- and finally, our Advanced Control Panel is a must have - tuned for usability and providing nice additional features.

Of course, I miss a number of other great enhancements, but those few examples from a handful of members demonstrate the value of the community for the community!

Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

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