By Ian Robinson on
10/13/2008
Members of the Engage Software team led six sessions (the entire DotNetNuke track) last week at TulsaTechFest 2008.
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By Ian Robinson on
10/13/2008
With the new skinning changes in DotNetNuke, it may be helpful to give an overview of available approaches to skin developers.
Each of these approaches attempts to answer the question "How do I embed and customize all that great functionality that DNN provides in my skin?" In other words, given that we have a pre-set base of options for functionality (core skin objects), and each of those options exposes certain customization points (skin object properties) that I'd like to set…how the heck do I get it done?
The answer may depend on which technologies you are familiar with (or willing to learn), but let's examine each of the different approaches and see if one clicks for you.
Note: For the sake of simplicity, I'm going to leave out the following buzz words: XTHML, CSS, table-based, and any other new age standards loving or old-school table defensiveness babble.
What's available pre-DNN 5
The "XML? I've heard of that!" approach
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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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By Ian Robinson on
12/9/2007
If you have recently edited your reporting services web.config and can no longer access your reports you may want to check if your web.config file contains an xmlns attribute on the configuration element. If it does, you will not be able to access your report manager. Simply removing the attribute will solve this issue.
I ran into this issue today after i edited a property in the web.config using the IIS tool (under asp.net tab). As i had no idea what had originally caused the issue it took a few hours to figure out that it was because i had edited the web.config with IIS.
Here is the error message that the report manager would display:
"The report server is not responding. Verify that the report server is running and can be accessed from this computer."
Here is the error message from the log file:
Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.Utilities.InternalCatalogExcepti
on: An internal error occurred on the report server. See the error log
for more details. ---> System.NullReferenceException:...
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By Ian Robinson on
11/19/2007
Running all the new .NET 3.0 goodness on your development machine, but want to install content templates (maybe the DNN starter kit?) for Visual Studio 2005? You may see this error: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Wizardframework, Version=8.0.0.0,...'
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By Ian Robinson on
11/4/2007
After a bit of frustration with MS Virtual CD, I found a solution that works on Vista.
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By Ian Robinson on
11/1/2007
There is a new ComponentArt rich text editor on the market - is it ready for DNN?
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By Ian Robinson on
10/26/2007
Information gleaned from Tulsa TechFest 2007...
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By Ian Robinson on
9/17/2007
Mr. Dukes pointed me to this blog post by Daniel Moth and of course I accepted the challenge (or was it just an inquiry......maybe I'm overly competitive...)
here is the link to try it yourself: Typequick
YOUR RESULTS ARE:
Number of words typed: 306
Test duration: 3 min
Speed: 102.2 words/min. (511 keystrokes/min.)
Error penalty: 13
Accuracy: 95.8%
I did not have to mess with the scrolling window as some have had to.....and it was my first try....also i fix errors as i go.....
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By Ian Robinson on
2/4/2007
As techies, we here at Engage Software were enthusiastic regarding the release of IE7, and subsequently left IE6 behind. However a large number of the population at large, including our clients, are keeping it very much alive. Not being able to install IE6 and IE7 on the same machine has been a frustration in recent days.....but MS has come up with a relatively painless solution.
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