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7/14/2006 4:52 PM
 
Piotr Smolanski

terrafantastica.net
Joined: 7/24/2005
Posts: 21
My question is: how to get multiple controls inside one module to display within their own containers and with those containers providing logic for those controls only? When you add a DNN Blog to a pane, it embeds a lot of controls, behaving like separate modules, with own settings and so on. How can I do this with my module and controls?
 
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7/22/2006 10:36 AM
 
Piotr Smolanski

terrafantastica.net
Joined: 7/24/2005
Posts: 21
Sorry for bumping this, but I'm really clueless about what to do now.

I have implemented my own ArticleModuleBase in a pretty much identical way that the Blog module implements BlogModuleBase. I have created an agregating control and loaded the two other controls as seen below:

protected void Page_Init(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    try
    {
        PortalModuleBase portalmodulebase_categories;
        portalmodulebase_categories =    
            (PortalModuleBase)this.LoadControl("~/DesktopModules/Articles/ViewCategories.ascx");
        portalmodulebase_categories.ID = System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(this.ModulePath +        
            "ViewCategories.ascx");
        portalmodulebase_categories.ModuleConfiguration = this.ModuleConfiguration;
        portalmodulebase_categories.LocalResourceFile = this.TemplateSourceDirectory + "/" +
            DotNetNuke.Services.Localization.Localization.LocalResourceDirectory + "/ViewCategories.ascx.resx";
        this.Controls.Add(portalmodulebase_categories);


        ViewArticles viewarticles_dynamic;
        viewarticles_dynamic = (ViewArticles)this.LoadControl("~/DesktopModules/Articles/ViewArticles.ascx");
        viewarticles_dynamic.ID = System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(this.ModulePath +
            "ViewArticles.ascx");
        viewarticles_dynamic.ModuleConfiguration = this.ModuleConfiguration;
        viewarticles_dynamic.LocalResourceFile = this.TemplateSourceDirectory + "/" +
            DotNetNuke.Services.Localization.Localization.LocalResourceDirectory + "/ViewArticles.ascx.resx";
        this.Controls.Add(viewarticles_dynamic);

    }
    catch (System.Exception exc)
    {
        DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.Exceptions.ProcessModuleLoadException(this, exc);
    }
}


The controls load within the container. I have absolutely no clue as to why they load witin their own containers in the blog module and what I should do to replicate that behaviour. Can someone please help me with this?
 
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7/23/2006 5:55 PM
 
yannick kiekens

www.purplebox.be
Joined: 9/13/2004
Posts: 192

I am not 100% sure but I think the blog module is composed of multiple modules that use a DNN framework feature called "Inter Module Communication, IMC" It's mentioned briefly in the module developers guide (also not entirely shure)

 

What you are doing is essentially just loading usercontrols dynamically, From your description it sounds as if you need/want IMC

Edit your Skin.xml and Container.xml files with:
Yannick's SXE
 
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7/24/2006 6:31 AM
 
Piotr Smolanski

terrafantastica.net
Joined: 7/24/2005
Posts: 21
Multiple modules? But it is deployed as one module, and the source code just shows multiple ascx controls that are being loaded dynamically. Can you actually compile one project into a deployable zip file so that it loads into DNN as multiple modules?

Maybe there's some easier way for me to do what I want to do - can I somehow explicitly call the container as a class, or a control and wrap it around my own control?
 
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7/25/2006 6:06 AM
 
Vladan Strigo

Vladan.Strigo.NET
Joined: 11/27/2003
Posts: 505

I am pretty sure that Blog module comprises of multiple modules which are binded together by the same .dnn file configured in a way that when you it to your page it drops all of it's child modules as well. Also if you will notice you can delete module by module off a page and leave only the ones you need.

I am not sure how they communicate, it can be done in one of several ways:

- IMC
- QueryString
- Session or some other persistance medium

 

HTH

Thanks,
Vladan Strigo
NETMedia

My website: Vladan.Strigo.NET

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