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6/14/2007 2:12 PM
 
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Gnot, usually a DNN module has its own contained environment: its own tables, its own settings, its own sprocs, its own logic. Good module design should include upgrade scripts for all sql needed to create or alter tables and sprocs for your module

 

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gnot,

What I do is that I ensure that my development environment has all of the same skins and modules and I recreate some of the pages, but overall I make sure that I at least have the same modules and skins installed.

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6/14/2007 11:26 PM
 
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I am probably go a bit overboard but I actually have 4 environments I use. The first 3 are located locally: Development which is used purely for code development and initial validation. Integration, this is where I test my install/upgrade/Uninstall procs. The 3rd local environment is a "prod" like environment that I copy locally from my production environment prior to testing. This is where I cunduct end to end testing of the module/code changes including validation that the changes I made have caused no problems elsewhere within the installation. I also do performance tuning at this stage (more db related) because in my experience you need to baseline/optimize performance against real world data.

This is probably more than is required for many sites but is also less than larger sites should go through.

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When I develop a module each module gets it's own DotNetNuke installation. This makes it move fast because I use the WSP format (that works with Visual Web Developer Express).

I use SQL Server express for these installs so it only takes 2-4 minutes to set each one up. I usually use IIS because it is faster to view the page and debug.

I also use Visual Studio because it has the "Debug/Attach to process" that makes debugging very fast (a single feature like that is worth the $200 to upgrade from Visual Web Developer Express to Visual Studio).

I then create the .sql upgrade scripts like I would for any Core DotNetNuke module (I actually don't create uninstall scripts because I'm usually building modules for companies that would have a huge problem if some admin accidentally uninstalled the module and erased valuable company data :)

In my case the customers expect the module to behave like Core module (except the uninstall). Most importantly they expect it to upgrade like a normal DotNetNuke Core module. They already have live data so you must use .sql upgrade scripts, you can't just copy the database.


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