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1/4/2007 12:47 AM
 
Daniel

Joined: 12/28/2006
Posts: 4

Hey Experts.  In your estimate, with someone having a general C# and .NET background but ZERO DotNetNuke background, how many days or hours should someone be able to produce the following?

"Create a DotNetNuke module. The module should have a standard view control that displays some sort of list. The module should have an edit control that allows for adding new elements to the list, as well as editing current ones. The module should also have some sort of admin/settings control that somehow changes the display of the list in the view control. "

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1/4/2007 5:26 AM
 
Tim OBrien

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Joined: 3/31/2004
Posts: 147

It's not really reasonable to ask someone with zero knowledge to take that on. Give some one a couple of weeks to get up to speed.

It's also extremely vague as a spec. That sounds a lot like the example project that you get with the  starter kit.

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1/4/2007 10:41 AM
 
John Mitchell


www.snapsis.com
Joined: 4/18/2003
Posts: 3987

I would say 4 hours max.  There are plenty of examples in the core and around the web to follow.

Look at the Reports module in the core as a good simple example of your requirements.  Also look at the UDT module for something a little more advanced.

No need to start from scratch.

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1/4/2007 12:19 PM
 
Pril

Joined: 1/25/2005
Posts: 150

You did not specify module type? Module for deploy/sell or just changing code in one of existing modules/samples? In first case I agree with couple of weeks in second case one day+time for developing code without DNN... - this is true only for developers familiar with vb.net (most examples are in vb.net language) and a lot of knowledge of ASP.NET and .NET (not only with backround).

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1/4/2007 12:42 PM
 
michael jackson

Brillnat.com
Joined: 12/17/2004
Posts: 175
I would say that how long it will take depends mostly on you. It can take a while to understand the dnn way of thinking.  If you can change your way of thinking to match it can go quickly.  If you struggle with accepting it, it will take longer. Nearly all examples and the entire core are in vb.net. Some people have a struggle with why that is and hence struggle when they can’t do something that they could do easily in the language they know and love. Some people also need to understand exactly what is going on and why. That will take more time than those who can put up something that works but may not fully understand what is going on behind the scenes. Some people will struggle with the documentation. Others flourish in the fact that all the source is available and offers terrific examples. So it really depends on you.
 
I had > 20 yrs of programming, a great deal of VB, a lot of classic asp, and only a little asp.net when I first looked at DNN. I think I’m rather a flexible guy. I am a documentation reader so that was a strike against me. I do learn well from examples, and don’t feel I need to know everything before I can use a tool. From the time I first looked at dnn until I had a running hello world module it was about 3 days (8-10 hrs/day). I am not a particularly fast guy but not the slowest either. Another couple of days and it was a real module similar to what you asked about. It was not complete with full error checking or an install. It wasn’t fully localizable. It had some stupid things in it but it did function without crashing and I could add new items and edit old ones and display them based on some setting on the settings page.
 
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