I'm trying to use the new Version 5 Manifest format, and it's not creating the definition.

I followed the blog series by Charles Nurse and referenced the forms and List dnn file. (Both fantastic resources)

Even now I'm referencing the two trying to find out why my module is not installing correctly - and I've got nothing more to go with.

I'll paste my dnn file at the end.

I have 5.1.0 installed on a vista SP1 with .net3.5sp1. I also had this problem with a copy of 5.0.1. I wiped and reinstalled trying to make sure there weren't artifacts from my previous attempts to get it installed mucking up the system.

The only reference to my module I can find in the DB is in the Packages table. If I atttempt to manually create a new Definition I get

Object reference not set to an instance of an object. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.Features.ModuleEditor.BindDefinition() at 

Which shows up in the event log.

I also get an error when I attempt to delete the module I get another error in the event log

Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at DotNetNuke.Services.Installer.Packages.PackageController.CanDeletePackage

But it seems to remove the module - At least from the Packages table. Re-Import Manifest still fails to properly install my module. The Edit Extention window is ... Well, check out this screen shot http://images.goldstar-consulting.com/BrokenManifest01.png and you'll see it's missing a bit of the top information.

I'm totally at a loss for this. Been working on it all day... and I got nothing. Any help or pointers or showing me the simple thing I'm missing, would be much appreciated.

My manifest file can be found at http://images.goldstar-consulting.com/JobEntry.dnn.txt

I had the controlTitle element in before, it was blank (as that's the view control) so I took it out to see if it would affect anything. I tried to minimize the amount of 'stuff' in the file to try to narrow down what  could be causing the problem. I did, at one point, have that control (except for the actual settings) the same as the sample (for the view control).

I'm gone for most of the day, but I think I'll try to start with Charles' sample and then replace in my values until something breaks... *sigh* Debugging, and it's not even code. :)  (that was mostly a note to myself for later)