Hello, 
i'm fairly new to module creation and deployment, we are working with DNN5 Community and we have 2 test environments and a production IIS server with DNN5 Installed. 
I opened the sources of an already created Module in VS2010 and made some changes to it, added Settings and so on, I tested it works great on my test environment, I created the packadge with the wizard in Module Definitions, I changed all the fields I could (Version # and Friendly name) and created my zip file, which contains the .dnn manifest file.
I'm wondering about 2 variables in the manifest file which I would like to change but don't know the effect it may have.
- moduleName
- foldername
I checked this link and it doesn'T give me much info:
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/W...
what I want to know:
can i just change the "moduleName" and the "folderName" variables in the manifest file (add a 2 at the end for example) save it and deploy it on my Production server and when I install it it would have a different name and folder than the one that's already there?
I don't want to overwrite anything I just want another module and be able to put it on a test page on the prod. site and see if it's working fine, then deploy it on the actual page.

hope it's clear. 

Hi 
thanks for the info, 
I actuallty changed both and all the paths in my manifest file for the module (added a 2 at the end) and It installed the module successfully, then when I added it to a test page the errors started pouring in... 
Most of them because of a webservice i had included in my module that had the same name.
I will restore the DNN original files from another test site and erase the Module and Reinstall it from the module zip file which I will create without changing any module name or short name.

what about version number what would that do?

Hi, 
thanks for that, I recreated the packadge with only the Version numer that's different.
I started with an old backup of our DNN site, then installed the zip packadge, and it updated the instances of that module on all pages.
so I guess there is no (easy?) way to rename a module then install it on a site not to overwrite my old one?

2nd issue: In my packadge I also had a webservice I created and I am a bit confused about that:
it had the same name as the old webservice, will the new deployment of my module overwrite that webservice as well?