I have installed many source modules into my VS2008 2.0 environment using dotnetnuke 4.5 with no problem at all. By copying the relevant folder into DeskTopModules and then Create Module, Dotnetnuke would take the .DNN manifest I supplied and show it in the Module creation. This would then create it and place the name in the 'Select a Module' dropdown in the Control Panel when the correct button was pressed. Really simple.

Now I try to do it in the same environment but with Dotnetneuke 5.0 I have tried using the Add Module in Host and the Module name goes into the dropdown. However when I instantiate it into the Page then nothing happens and no module appears.

I have grappled with this for several hours and can find no Help file to show how to do perform the procedure. It certainly isn't instinctive so can anybody help. All I want to do is to include my source project into DNN 5 'Desktopmodules' and instantiate it onto a page so I can debug it using VS2008. It used to be so simple.

With this new release is there any documentation at all? The only stuff I can find pertains to DNN 3! How do these new extensions work in DNN 5 and how do modules tie in with them. Is it supposed to be a closely guarded secret or an open system? Am I being blind? This is becoming very, very frustrating. I have about 50 modules to convert from DNN 4.5 for a customer with some 120 portals and it's becoming very tedious looking for information. I wanted to buy the advertised book on DNN 5 only to find out it doesn't come out until February 2009? Can that be right?

Hi Sebastian - thanks for the reply. I am going straight from 4.5 to 5.0 and don't particularly want to have to go through 4.9.

Are you REALLY saying that there is NO official definitive document from DotnetNuke for all developers who have modules created in versions using the older manifest layout wishing to install them in DNN 5 ? Surely there must be something in the yet-to-be-released DotnetNuke 5 book on this very important subject that can (should?) be published on this website ? DNN 5 has a new packaging format - you say - and yet DotNetNuke haven't bothered to publish a document about it. Is that what you're saying Sebastion? I am absolutely astonished that DotnetNuke are failing developers in this way. Do DotnetNuke really consider "some documentation in Charles Nurse's Blog" really an adequate and professional method to impart knowledge?

Is the way Shaun + DNN Team really wish to treat developers? Has Dotnetnuke really not published ANY information to any of the other system houses?

What is the link for this new packaging format, on Charles Nurse's Blog? Can you give me please.