Hello. I'm working on a site which requires a certain functionality, 90% of which can be provided by the Repository module. I want to add new functionality inclusing searchable keywords, a "Published" date field and be able to filter the documents based on the Published date (the Published date is not the same as the Uploaded date). I'm a fairly competent .Net developer and would be able to create this functionality outside of DotNetNuke fairly easily. However I'm struggling to find a resource (tutorial or walk-through) that shows me how to modify and implement changes for a core module? Does anyone have any tips or pointers towards any such resources. I've found lots of "How to create a new module..." but I want  a "How to modify...".

So far I've downloaded the source code for the repository project and tried to open it in Visual Studio and there were missing files. I found a Resources.zip file within the source folder which seemed to include those missing files so I extracted them and then opened the solution. It won't build though, it seems to be missing a lot of references.

Basically I'm not sure what to do here so any help would be mush appreciated. In the mean time I'll keep searching...

Thanks,
James.

Thanks for your guidance here. Luckily enough I do still have VS2003 on my machine, however my DNN is version 4.4. I've been on to the DNN site to download v3 and they only have 3.3.7 available (not 3.3.5). I presume this version is ok to work with?

I'd like to say thank you to Steve for this guidance, it took me a while but I have just been able to recompile the full solution in VS and then in Nant and it did indeed create the package folder and files you described. Although I haven't actually made any changes yet so I hope I haven't jumped the gun. For anyone else who might be doing the same thing I did have to fix references in the Dotnetnuke (v3.3.7) project for the CountryListbox.dll and DotNetNuke.WebUtility.dll. To do this I opened the Dotnetnuke.vbproj file in notepad, found where the files were supposed to be and copied the files to that location from the Dotnetnuke/bin directory.

One error I made was to copy the Repository source files into the DesktopModules folder manually. I did not realise you could install "source" versions of modules through Dotnetnuke itself. It is the installation process that places all the files in the right place (and no doubt potentially modifies the database).

I have no experience at all with Nant and I couldn't get their "Introduction" sample working but it seems to be working ok for DNN so thats all that counts.

I found this quite a frustrating process and without Steve's help I wouldn't have stood a chance. I feel it would be a great help to the community if some "How to extend..." documentation was included in the source code downloads. Steve, do you know if the process I have followed with your module will work for all other core project modules? e.g. install the module source through (the correct version of) DNN, fix references, make changes, build in release mode, build using Nant?

Thanks again for your help.

James.