Hello Everyone,

I have a general question that I am sure will generate a lot of replies concerning DNN.

The Company I am working for is looking for a custom solution for one of our clients. This would require the registration of there clients and ultimately generate a Lottery pick of the registered clients for a specific event or events. This would also cover reports that would need to be generated and other administrative task for managing

 there clients.

In a nut shell there will be a number of employees that will use this solution from different location throughout the state and all will have there own set of clients that would be entered into the system. Each having there own Lottery system.

I am very pro DotNetNuke for this solution and building a module that would allow for the functionality to perform this.

However with any big project there is research to be preformed.

I would like to get the community perspective of this in order to build a case on if we should go Module based or build a solution from scratch.

Please provide objective opions and do cover the pros and cons of the following and if anyone has some suggestions of other areas I may have over looked please feel free to include them.

1-      Security

2-      Design time of from scratch to building a module

3-       Load handling

4-      Expandability

At the moment that is all I can think of.

Thanks in advance

Doug Blackmon

Doug,

As you said there is a lot of work on these kinds of projects.  Your research is important but to really understand you needs we would need a better understanding on the size and scope.  All that takes time.  I would suggest that you come up with your theory about what you think the trade offs are.  Then tell us that at that point people may be able to offer encouragement that you are correct or guidance to look at things differently.   I think you are asking too much as it sits right now. 

mj

Well my level of Experience with DNN is pretty good as far as management and the understanding of how it all works. The programming side I am still working with, granted there are allot of great how to's out there but none that really show little aspects to the art of module building. They are all geared to "Ok here is how you set it up now have fun". I think that’s what holds up a lot of potential developers out there.

I have been using the LISTX module for my current project (Even though it has a learning curve) I am managing to get a great product out of it. I would recomend this to anyone that understand SQL, HTML, Java.

Anyway back on topic... We were looking to outsource this project to an experienced development team that if familiar with DNN and VS 2005 programming. I would love to undertake this but I personaly am not at the experance level I should be.

I understand code looking at it and can tell you all day what is happening line by line but as far as telling this black box what to do I come up short.

I just wanted generally weigh the pros and cons of each..

I feel if you already have a great wrapper why reinvent the wheel. I just wanted community feedback on this topic.

Kind of like success stories regarding DNN and why you chose to go with one vers the other.

Again any info is helpful 

Doug