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Simple question on DotNetNuke Module development

If you are developing multiple modules on a webpage displaying different things such as content like a bio or pictures based on a userId passed through the Query String. At page load should all modules on the webpage act independently and individually look at the query string and return the content based on the userId. And in the sam...

Show module on everypage with same content in DotnetNuke

Hi, I am developing a slide show module for DNN, I have completed the module but I have a problem. I use modules' TabModuleID property to load the images for every instance of module, by this user can add multiple instance of modules with different pictures.Here is the problem, when I tick the show all pages checkbox in module's settings...

ssl certificate issue

I have dotnetnuke based site. I have enabled SSL option. I am getting two problems, when i type it's url say www.abc.com it goes to http://www.abc.com rather https://www.abc.com until i explicitly mention.. is there any way, it redirects to https://www.abc.om rather http://www.abc.com i get untrusted certificate security warning from...

Retrieve Password DNN

Hi ALL, we are using dot net nuke portal. when user clicks Retrieve Password he gets email with From: [email protected] I want to change this email but I can't find the place. Thanks ...

CBO.FillCollection throwing "No parameterless constructor defined for this object." error...

I'm trying to fill a collection from an IDataReader that was returned by another method... for some reason it keeps throwing a "No parameterless constructor defined for this object." error for this line: List<string> names = CBO.FillCollection<string>(DataProvider.Instance().ExecuteReader("getNames", new SqlParameter("UserId", 1))); I...

DotNetNuke Retrieving UserInfo for the given UserID

Is there somthing in the dotnetnuke framework which will allow me to pass it a userId and it would return the UserInfo object filled with details of that userId. If not what would be the normal way of doing this? ...

Change favicon in DotNetNuke portal

I'm managing several DotNetNuke portals (as well as the main hosting itself). All of the portals have the default DNN icon in the address and when they're bookmarked. I want to have a custom favicon.! It's the icon on the left side of this: I've tried clobbering the default favicon.ico file in the root directory (where the web.confi...

Is LINQ to SQL and Dotnetnuke is good choice or we should stick to 3 Tier architecture ?

Project Scenario Technology : Dotnetnuke (Approx. 100 - 150 screens) Data Architecture : LINQ to SQL selected with Codesmith PLINQO Modules are customized, so its fine if it does not work with Oracle or MySQL as backend So, the question is Due to selection of LINQ to SQL in place of 3-tier provider model, it will create any issue ? ...

Creating DNN Portal through Code (or programming) ?

I have one portal with 3 modules inside it, now my requirement is i would like to create new portal for every client registered in my DNN site. So, i have one interface for registration, so as soon as client registers entirely new parent portal should be created with all the modules. How can i achieve this functionality ??? ...

how do i remove the collapse/expand control from the module container.

Hi I am new in DNN and can you please help me provide the steps in order to remove the collapse/expain control from the containers. I am creating a skin and i want to get rid of that control. ...

Updating DotNetNuke module from another app

I have several DNN modules that I wish to update silently, using the portal's built-in module upgrade facilities called from a separate application, in this case a Windows service. I was able to make it all work with version 4.3 of the portal by modifying the DNN source in key areas to allow DotNetNuke.dll to function outside of a web ap...

Why does ASP.NET auto-generated .designer code have the incorrect type?

I'm working on a hack to the DotNetNuke Events module. I've got the source set up and it built A-OK without modifications. However, when I change the EventMonth.ascx file, Visual Studio updates the .designer.vb file associated with it... and declares two objects with the wrong type! It looks like this: Protected WithEvents EventIcons...

Import DotNetNuke users using transactions with DNN classes

I'm developing a module in DNN 4.9 to import users. My problem is that I need transaction support but have to use DNN classes to import/create users. Out of the box the classes don't seem to support transactions. Anybody got experience with this or knows how to do that? I'm using the following object to create users: UserController.C...

Help on DotNetNuke

Does any body know how can i change the layout of a dotnetnuke website. I need to modify the standard layout ...

Internet Explorer takes considerably more time to load than FireFox-- to the point where it actually freezes. How can I prevent this?

Hi, One of our main pages takes an immense amount of time to load in IE8 (have not tried IE7 or 6). It's so bad that IE actually freezes up for a few seconds while trying to load the page. Firefox is perfectly fine... I've tried a bunch of different things but I cannot figure out what it is. It's not very js intensive, although we ar...

Prevent jQuery multiple reference

Hi, I am developing Dnn modules and I am using jQuery in some modules, I add the jQuery reference to the top of the each ascx file, by the way when user add multiple modules to the page it references every time when modules are added, this situation gives some errors, when I remove the reference from the module which is bottom of the oth...

Pass DotNetNuke User Information To PHP Site As Login

I've been using DotNetNuke for my company's main website. A separate vendor built a tool that we're using to sell our product. That vendor built it's application on Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP. They use the standard forms authentication. Is it possible to create a link on my dotnetnuke site that passes some user information (e-mail addres...

loading dotnetnuke into memory in background

If there were no visits to the dotnetnuke portal for some time, depending on the host, the dotnetnuke is unloaded from server's memory. The first visitor that comes next is then forced to wait about 15+ seconds (depending on server's speed) in order to see the page. Dotnetnuke is a big framework but sometimes ends up serving low traffic ...

Recommended DotNetNuke module project templates

Every module I've developed is separated into 2 folders: DesktopModules/[ModuleName] - contains .aspx and .aspx.cs files. Modules/[ModuleName] - contains a class library project with the rest of the code (.cs files). I've heard that you can use a special project template that handles .aspx, .cs and much more module related file type...

How to stop "SMTP Configuration Test" email every time I send a Newsletter in DotNetNuke 5.0?

The question is in the title, every time i send out a Newsletter from DNN (Newsletter Module) the Admin gets a blank "SMTP Configuration Test" email. How do I stop that email? ...