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Engage Software has just launched another website. The new site is a portal for The Ticket Guys (www.theticketguys.com). It is built using the DotNetNuke portal framework, though we had to develop new modules and enhance existing modules to get all of the desired functionality on the site. So if you're looking for St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Rams,...

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Have you ever wanted to change what DotNetNuke says on it's controls? Change "Register" to "Join Us" or "Terms of Use" to "Member Agreement"? It's easier than you think.

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It often happens that I would like to know the size of an image so that I can smartly resize it in various situations. Until today, I had never been quite able to get everything that I needed to get it done.

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I recently returned from a trip to Chicago to offer a corporate customer a two day training session on Advanced DotNetNuke Topics. That has inspired me to increase some of our marketing materials here at Engage Software to include more of our training options. While we offer training on everything within DotNetNuke, we only list off a small fraction of those topics on our DotNetNuke Training page.

Here's a longer list of some of the training options we can offer for your business needs. (I'll be adding/editing to this list over the next few days)

Introduction to DotNetNuke Developer Site Administrator System Administrator User/Editor Server Configuration IIS Database Installation DotNetNuke Administration Database Best Practices Security Maintenance Basic Skin Development HTML ASCX Containers Advanced Skin Development CSS Customized Controls Flexible Skinning Solutions Advanced...

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In the July 07 Issue of the DotNetNuke Newsletter Kiwanis.org was featured in the Project Spotlight! Why does that mean anything to me? Because Engage Software developed a lot of the custom functionality and converted the design to a skin for the Kiwanis site! Check it out at http://www.kiwanis.org

Are you going to OpenForce07 in Las Vegas November 5-8th 2007? I am! And I even have the badge displaying on http://chrishammond.com

Have you seen the agenda for the conference yet? If not take a look at it here.

There will be 3 days of DotNetNuke topics, two tracks each day. It looks like I'm up second, on the second day, of the second track. We're also lining up a vendor booth for Engage Software, I'm hoping to write a demo version of Engage: Publish...

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Using a DropDownList, RadioButtonList, CheckBoxList, or other similar control as a trigger of an Update Panel (rather than in the Update Panel itself) will cause the initial value not to fire a SelectedIndexChanged event.

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In a previous blog I had posted a document to help developers get started implementing their own provider. This video is aimed at helping those who have had trouble getting their environments setup correctly and issues with the web.config file. I am working on a second video that will walk through modifications required in the code. Coming soon!

http://www.engagemodules.com/Support/Tutorials/tabid/74/Default.aspx

Please post any questions or comments at:

http://www.engagemodules.com/Support/Forums/tabid/57/forumid/4/scope/threads/Default.aspx

See previous blog post here

A few years back I was enlightened by Chris Paterra in the ways of using NANT scripts to aid in the packaging of DotNetNuke Modules. Using NANT to package your WAP (web application project) modules within Visual Studio 2005 is a snap, and can save you a LOT of time each time you have to come up with a new release.

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Welcome back to the DotNetNuke tips! I started doing this over a year ago, though with getting married last fall and working on my Datsun 240Z lately I haven't blogged near as much lately about DNN topics. So here we go, starting up again with my DotNetNuke Tips.

Today's tip follows:

When you're doing testing locally with a backup for a Production Database and Website one of the things you need to be sure to do is change your...

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