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Announcing Engage: Employment 1.3
Brian Dukes By Brian Dukes on 2/22/2008 11:01 AM

We at Engage Software have just released the latest update to our DotNetNuke Jobs Listing module, Engage: Employment, version 1.3.  This is a module you can use on your company's DNN site to list the job openings you have available at your various locations, and accept and sort applications and applicants.

In this version we have made significant enhancements to searching both within the module ...

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Editing .SqlDataProvider scripts within Visual Studio
Brian Dukes By Brian Dukes on 2/22/2008 11:00 AM

I had finally had it.  I was no longer accepting the lack of tool support while editing the .SqlDataProvider scripts for DotNetNuke modules.  I needed to figure out a way to make Visual Studio treat those files as if they ended with .sql instead of .SqlDataProvider so that it would give me syntax highlighting for my SQL scripts.  Finally, I found an article about doing the same sort of thing for Torque files.  I don't have any idea what Torque is, but what I found there seemed to do the trick.

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DotNetNuke and Browser-Independent Default Buttons
Brian Dukes By Brian Dukes on 2/22/2008 10:57 AM
Have you ever used the DefaultButton property on an ASP.NET Panel, only to find that it doesn't work in Firefox? Here's an easy way to use DotNetNuke's ClientAPI to acheive the same result for more than just IE.
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Engage Wins the Gold!
Rich Campbell By Rich Campbell on 2/14/2008 12:33 PM
Engage Software is proud to announce we have attained Gold Partner status within the Microsoft Partner Program.
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Workflow and Versioning for DotNetNuke, a true CMS module
Chris Hammond By Chris Hammond on 2/7/2008 11:47 PM
Earlier today we had a customer post a question in the forums on www.engagemodules.com regarding using Engage: Publish as a replacement for the Text/HTML module within DotNetNuke.
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What Blogs Do You Read?
Ian Robinson By Ian Robinson on 2/7/2008
Earlier today I created a list of blogs, podcasts, and web sites that are of interest to me as a developer. This are the sites I keep tabs on so I can stay up on the latest and keep learning. Some of them I frequent more regularly than others...
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Engage: Locator 1.1 Released!!!
John Eimer By John Eimer on 2/7/2008

We have released a major update for Engage: Locator.  In version 1.1, we have added a few new features to make using the module to display your locations even better.

The most notable change is the ability to configure the default display for the module. There are a new module settings that allow you to configure the default module display. You can choose to display all of your locations or to display the search option by default. When displaying all of your locations, you can also choose if the map mashup is displayed as well.

Other enhancements  will be seen when editing a location. One feature allows you enhance your location details. You can utilize the text editor to insert images, links or format each location's details. We have also given you the ...

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Engage: Publish site featured in DNN Newsletter
Chris Hammond By Chris Hammond on 2/5/2008 10:59 AM
In the first DotNetNuke newsletter from the DotNetNuke Corporation for 2008 the project spotlight showcases a website that is using Engage: Publish for content management. Here's some of the text that was included in the newsletter. "At the ZoneDiet.com site, visitors can get a wealth of information about the Zone Diet, in additon to being able to order official Zone Products (Omega-3 Concentrates, Food Items, Polyphenols, Supplements, Skin Care Products, Books) through the e-commerce store. "
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Engage: Publish Conversion Writeup
Chris Hammond By Chris Hammond on 2/2/2008 7:01 PM
For my personal website I converted from CommunityServer to DotNetNuke, using Engage: Publish as the Blogging platform. I did a pretty lengthy writeup of the conversion process. You can read more about the conversion on the writeup.
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Navigating With Environment Variables
Brian Dukes By Brian Dukes on 1/29/2008 2:44 PM

As a developer, and specifically as a DotNetNuke developer, there are a number of directories that I have to navigate to regularly.  In particular with DotNetNuke, I'm going to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\DotNetNuke\Website\DesktopModules quite a bit.  So, instead of having to try to type that in all the time, or navigate through the folder structure, I've defined an environment variable "dm" that is defined as that path to my Desktop Modules folder.  I can just type %dm% into an explorer prompt and be there without any hassle.  I've also setup a %wwwroot% shortcut, though it gets used much less often.  It's a lot like keeping ...

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