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DNN 9 New Password Fails
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DNN Unable to Add Extension to Page
If you’ve ever built a custom module where it compiled without error and then you attempt to put it on a page and the whole thing just freezes up? Maybe you edited the extension settings of an existing module because…
DNN Custom Module Missing Create Package
There’s nothing that makes me pull my hair out faster than looking for an option that isn’t there. No, I’m not on the wrong page. I’m not signed in as the wrong user. And I’m not looking at the Dev…
SharePoint 2010, DotNetNuke and Forms Based Authentication
The real title of this post should: Users, Users Everywhere And Not A Single One Will Authenticate. Forms Based Authentication is an amazing feature that allows you to store users in one database and access them from another. It’s the…
SharePoint Alerts
One of the great features of SharePoint is Alerts. Let’s say you have a lot of people storing a lot of documents in a lot of libraries in SharePoint. You want to know what’s going with the libraries and lists…
Unable to Add Modules
A few months ago, we upgraded a client’s development and production sites from DNN 6 to DNN 7.3. Other than a few minor issues, the upgrades went well and the sites have been running very well. Recently, we started encountering…
The Dreaded “Not a Known Element” Error
Element ‘{name}’ is not a known element. This can occur if there is a compilation error in the Web site, or the web.config is missing. If you’ve ever seen this error and started pulling your hair to solve it; this…
XML, SharePoint and the dreaded Hexadecimal Invalid Attribute
I run a site that uses SharePoint as a document repository and DotNetNuke as a viewer into that repository. Errors are not frequent, but it is a touchy system that needs a lot of babying. Microsoft is not fond of…
Restoring a DotNetNuke Database
In development I find myself restoring databases every once in a while and as much as I always hope its going to be a quick “pull the backup – restore the db – start coding” kind of process; it doesn’t…