Hi,

We built several modules on our DNN4.3.4 site by using starter lit, it works fine.

We also need to build a web service to expose the data through DNN4 framework for other non-DNN applications, but I could not add reference from web service project to the dataprovider and sqldataprovider  class under app_code, (since it is dynamic compile, no dll available for any class under app_code).

Question is,  how to build a custom dataprovider project on DNN4,( is it same as DNN3 dataprovider project? ) so our web service could use the DNN4 framework and customer dataprovider to access our backend databases?

thanks for any help.

daniel

Thanks,  Vladan,

 but I did not find it, would you give the URL for the module and dataprovider pages? I am trying to learn the beast practice for the DNN4 module and provider development from the community peers.

Just update my progress, I built a separate provider project on DNN4.3.4, it works. Basically, it is same as DNN3 project.

thanks for your help.

Thanks, it is a great tutorial for dnn module and dataprovider project.

For the dataprovider, you may add details for the connectionstring in web.config file, it costs me 4-5 hours to configure the web.config and dataprovider namespace, since the reflection is different with VS2003.

And for your deployment project, would you compare it with VS2005 Publish site? I use Publish to get the precompiled site, then xcopy to production server, it works fine for me. What is the advantage to use your deployment project instead of Publish?

thanks a lot for your contribution to DNN community.