Occasionally, you want to give a user, or content manager, access to PHPMyAdmin, but you don’t want them to log in to the server itself. This requires opening up PHPMyAdmin to the web. If you’ve ever purchased shared hosting you…
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 Mysterious Case of Visual Studio Corruption (or how I learned to recover a corrupt .ascx file)
CTRL+S to BSOD I had made a lot of progress on a new feature for one of our DNN modules. The majority of the implementation was in JavaScript with a few server side components. After adding in a bit more…
Resolve the GetCustomUI for RibbonID Microsoft.Excel.Workbook Error
Custom UI Runtime Error in Visual Studio Tools for Office Design-Time Adaptor for Excel This error drove me crazy because I could only find pieces of the answer, but never the whole answer. Here’s the whole answer that resolved the…
Using Linq To SQL to fill a GridView with a Generic List
I’ve ventured into Linq To SQL. I’m late to the show, but as I’ve been learning it I’m discovering that the tutorials online leave a lot to be desired. I’ve had to pull things together to fit my own unique…
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…