Ok, now we want to make the sketched changes ourselves against the latest release. However I am new to DNN development. How do I set up the config around the source project to compile?

The situation in more detail:

OS Vista, Development environment VS2008 with SP1.

-I have set up DNN 4.8.4 source package (4.9.0 also works). It compiles and I can login in the site on http://localhost/dotnetnuke_2(After setting trust to full).

-Now when opening the solution for the AD provider It suggests to make a virtual directory to the source of the AD provider. I allow it to make one in IIS.

-This virtual directory(application on IIS7)  get's made and points to the correct directory.

However the source does not compile. Now I feel stupid. What am I doing wrong?

 

 

Hans,

Open the .VS2008.vbproj file in Notepad and go down the the botttom of the file. Look for the line

and the line . Change Dotnetnuke_2 to match the url of your development site. Then close and save the file.

Also open the DNNModule.targets file in Notepad and change

to . That will stop it from building an install/source package every time you build the project.

Then launch the project by double clicking on the .vs2008.sln file or by opening it through VS2008. Go to the Properties of the project and click on the Web tab. Make sure the URLs are correct. If you want to launch the website out of VS2008 (which works better than attaching to it when you're working with an authentication provider) you'll have to click on the radio button "Start URL" and type in the URL for your development site.

That should do it I think. Let me know if you run into any problems.

They should be unzipped into the directory containing the .resources file and not their own (i.e. They should be in the DesktopModules/AuthenticationServices/ActiveDirectory directory). If you "Show All Files" in VS 2008 and add them under references then that's all you need to do. I've found that references being missing is fairly common in Web applications as almost everyone installs the source application to a different location. I'll have to look at it. I haven't had any problems getting the packages built so I'm not overly worried about it.

Is your provider using the same directory etc. that the original was installed to? When you build your project it should be replacing the .dll in the bin\Providers directory of your DNN Install and, that being so, will automatically use your changes.