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7/8/2010 3:23 PM
 
Mark ODonnell


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I just spent a couple hours with the Chris Hammond blog posts and setup my first real DNN 5.x dev machine.  Now I want to poke around in a modules source code just to see what's under the hood.   So what's the best scenario for working with a module like "Events" and it's source code, do I even need to install it first or can just open it as a new project?
 
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7/8/2010 3:49 PM
 
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I prefer using source version of the module (install same procedure as install version) and open solution in VS. if you configure output appropriately to /bin folder, you may see your changes directly after compile w/o need to install.
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7/8/2010 5:26 PM
 
Mike

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Another tip is to put good comments around your changes. That way if a new version is released you can do a diff to see what changes you made and make sure they get moved over. Not commenting makes this a nightmare since you don't know if it was a change from the module team or from you.
 
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7/8/2010 7:06 PM
 
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Sebastian Leupold wrote:
I prefer using source version of the module (install same procedure as install version) and open solution in VS. if you configure output appropriately to /bin folder, you may see your changes directly after compile w/o need to install.

I think what Sebastian means there is that after you do a build (and point the DLL for the project you are building to build into the DNN/bin folder) you won't need to try to repackage and install the module.

He is correct about setting up the source versions of the module, install the SOURCE version, even over the INSTALL version if you already have that running, then open up the project.

No guarantees that the project will have the NANT scripts like my solution, but you can likely try to integrate those into other modules as well!

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7/12/2010 5:28 AM
 
Parimal Shere


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hi, i want to kno0w how to see and edit the source code of the website developed in dOTNETNUKE
 
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