It seems like everything I work on these days is new technology and I guess there’s not a lot of love out there for VB.Net programmers. I spend a lot of time looking for code and it’s always in C#…
Author: Cliff Richardson
DotNetNuke and the TreeView
Scenario: In my DotNetNuke 6 custom module the treeview crashed on postback in view mode, but worked properly in edit mode Solution: In my case I had an UpdatePanel in the ascx control. To update all my modules to work…
XML Parsing Error when Upgrading DotNetNuke
When upgrading DotNetNuke the typical method is to Backup your database and site Extract the Upgrade zip file into your root directory Open a browser Navigate to your site (http://domainname) At this point the upgrade process begins and hopefully ends…
SQL Server says: Saving Changes Not Permitted
If you’ve run into this error then you’ve probably recently set up a new installation of SQL Server Management Studio. You then made a change to a table and to your horror this error popped up: Frustrating, isn’t it. But…
DotNetNuke and the Tab Module Drop Down
Every build something you’re certain you need, finish it, and then realize there’s a better way, but you love the solution so much you can just trash it? That’s the origin of this post. I’m sure I’ll need this later…
RowDataBound and the Generic List! You know you’re curious.
The Generic list is becoming my best friend although I couldn’t conclusively tell you why I’m enjoying using it more than a standard dataset. At any rate, one of the issues I ran into with the Generic list was reference…
DotNetNuke and Custom Permissions
While creating my own DotNetNuke 5 modules I found myself adding all kinds of custom permission in the code, but then the admin users didn’t have any access to change them. I found myself having to update the code every…
DotNetNuke and BC30002: Type ‘{type}’ is not defined
I recently ran into this problem: I have a DotNetNuke module that logs activity via a previously installed module. Several of my existing modules call the logging module without a problem, but then I created a new module and after…
RegisterClientScriptBlock, RegisterStartupScript and the AJAX Update Panel
It’s very frustrating when Microsoft products don’t work with Microsoft products and the server side client script is one of those frustrating situations. Normally, if I need to fire off a client script server side I would do it like…
Dot Net Nuke and the “Remember Me” option
The DotNetNuke “Remember Me” option on the log in page has always been a bit of mystery because it doesn’t quite do what you would expect it to do. I expected that when I clicked it on future logins the…