Hi Anderson,

I am trying to develop a module for my website.  I thought the only way to develop a module was to bring my site down locally, then develop the module in VS.  I find documentation on this entire site VERY difficult to find and use.  Any help on pointing me in a correct direction would be very much appreciated.

I have an application that is up and running with a few hundred users.  I am trying to write a module for class registration.  I wanted to use a copy of the database and website so I could make sure my module would work with existing data.  I was told to bring down a copy of both my website and my database and work locally.  THAT is what I've spent the last 4 days trying to do.  I've got everything locally running, but cannot get the website to open in VS.

This morning, I tried to just install a brand new copy of DNN and am now getting a message saying "No valid default database connection detected. Standard Database setup option is unavailable"

I am really frustrated with DNN at this time.  I'm a .NET developer and cannot figure out how to work with this product (Sorry if I sound a bit frustrated right now).

Any help would be appreciated on how I should be going about all of this.

Thanks Wes,  I'll give this a try.  The way we do it at work is you have to compile the complete project before beginning to look for dependencies and/or build errors.  I'll take a leap of faith and give your method a try.

Thanks!

...AND thanks for the helpful link.  I am completely amazed at how confusing it is to find info. on the DNN site.  I feel like I'm missing something every time I try to use the site to get information.  

All,

Thanks for your help with getting my site setup for development.  I ended up finding a video tutorial that explains what needs to happen to begin developing modules in DNN:

http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/V...