By Will on
11/27/2007
Although we would never want it to happen, we occasionally need to update the Module Settings for all instances of a specific module throughout a DotNetNuke (DNN) portal. There are times when a DNN web site grows to be so large that there are modules and pages all over the place, and the prospect of updating every single instance of a module is just not realistic. That all changes with a simple SQL Query!
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By Will on
11/27/2007
Although for many of you, it may be very elementary as to how you would clear the cache in DotNetNuke (DNN), this is simply not the case for everyone out there. It is for this reason that I thought it would be a good idea to blog about it.
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By Will on
11/14/2007
There are times when you need to incorporate a client-side form on your web form, user control, or DNN module. As you probably already know, this will not work. By default, ASP.Net doesn't allow child forms anymore.
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By Will on
11/10/2007
Well, I just got back home from SQL Saturday in Heathrow, FL. It was a really great event! For it being the first one, it was well organized and had a great array of topics.
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By Will on
11/7/2007
User Groups often have a bad stigma of not being productive and just being a "geek" meeting. Well, this doesn't have to be true. Such organizations can often be very productive and conducive to an entire industry, and your career.
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By Will on
11/5/2007
A while back, the family and I had a wonderful day. Despite the scorching hot weather, we made the best of it and had a very inexpensive yet memorable time.
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By Will on
11/4/2007
I don't know about you, but I am an avid user of the Google Toolbar buttons, as well as the DotNetNuke web site. Well, if you use the DNN web site as much as I do, you either have the addresses in memory on your address bar, quick link or short cut buttons, bookmark links, etc. Well, I came up with another way...
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By Will on
10/26/2007
A while ago, I tested the popularity and name recognition of DotNetNuke against some of the other CMS products out there. Being a fan and loyal user/developer of DotNetNuke projects (not the Core projects), I was quite disappointed.
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By Will on
10/10/2007
I had an instance recently where the FCKeditor would not display in any browser. Instead, I was greeted with nothing in non-IE browsers, and in IE I was greeted with the unwanted "Internet Explorer cannot display this webpage" page.
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By Will on
10/6/2007
With all of the talk these days of going "green", and all of the supporting data flying around, there is no denying that we need to each begin doing something to help out ourselves and those we care about in the future...
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By Will on
9/17/2007
I recently had a project where the home page for a web site called for an image that loaded randomly each time the page is loaded. For example, the first time you viewed the home page, you might be looking at monkeys, the next time a llama, and so on.
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By Will on
8/27/2007
There are great many things that we realize we take for granted when hand-coding database updates. For instance, in the SQL Server Management Studio (or Enterprise Manager), we often right-click something and then let a wizard walk us through some steps and... POOF! Your database is updated!
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By Will on
8/22/2007
If you are anything like me, you always want to find the most efficient way to do something. For instance, you cannot restore a database without first stopping all of the processes that are currently running under the database. Here is where a neat little snippet might be useful to you!
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By Will on
8/21/2007
There is an obscure and seemingly untraceable error that may occur with the DotNetNuke (DNN) Core Forums Module. This error states, "User Settings is currently unavailable." I believe that I have nailed down how this happens and how to fix it!
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By Will on
8/17/2007
Can you picture Kathy Bates' character in 'The Waterboy' saying, "Look out, Bobby Boucher... Internet Explorer 7 is THE DEVIL!" I certainly can...
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By Will on
8/15/2007
Invariably, at some point you will have a control that needs to display a list of options as a checkbox list. In order for our application to be user-friendly, we will need to provide the ability for the end-user to Select All checkboxes with a single click, as well as uncheck all checkboxes. With a bit of client-side code, this is easily achieved.
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By Will on
8/13/2007
Well, some time ago I posted my theory about the plot line of the final Bourne movie. It seems that I was almost right. :) I just saw this wrap-up of the Bourne Trilogy this weekend. I will not review it because I do not have time, but here are my thoughts about my original theory.
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By Will on
8/13/2007
Have you ever worked with an application that had many different connection strings and databases? It is sometimes necessary to grab some information from those connection strings. I have run into such a situation recently. Here is how to grab the database name from the connection string.
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By Will on
8/9/2007
The Display Name field is often misunderstood, and in my opinion... Not very well thought out. It has great potential for many different things, but overall I find that I answer more questions about it then I actually use it. The most common question about it is, "How can I remove it?" I will address it here.
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By Will on
8/9/2007
There are many of us out there who could be considered DotNetNuke (DNN) enthusiasts. We are constantly looking through the forums and blogs for new information about various components and modules, and we may even lose a lot of sleep doing it....
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By Will on
8/2/2007
There has been rumors for some time now that Google has been patiently developing plans to release a cell phone to the market. Well, it appears that this is true.
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By Will on
7/25/2007
I know I haven't posted any new blogs lately... As the saying goes, I have been really busy.
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By Will on
6/28/2007
If your Visual Studio crashes as much as mine does, you have invariably ran into an error stating "Unable to write to output file [filepathandname]: Unspecified error". At first, this error really ticked me off, as it left me with no path to troubleshoot and correct the error.
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By Will on
6/26/2007
While I was writing a class to allow me to quickly grab preformatted JavaScript functions (i.e., confirm, alert, etc.), I came across the need to ensure that a string passed into those methods would not throw a JavaScript error upon rendering. This could possibly happen if the message contained singles quotes for contractions, quotes, etc.
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By Will on
6/25/2007
In DotNetNuke, you generally are always working with the tab (page) that you are currently on whether it be at the module level or not. However, on occassion, you might need to access the properties of another tab (page) that you are not currently on.
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By Will on
6/24/2007
Since I was just thinking about it, here is a theory have about the latest and final release of the Jason Bourne films, The Bourne Ultimatum. (And no, I have no affiliation with any part of the film industry, I haven't read any spoilers, books, etc.)
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By Will on
6/24/2007
I have a great need for a current project to optimize whereever I can. The DotNetNuke SqlDataProvider is one of those areas where optimizations are NEEDED.
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By Will on
6/14/2007
I forgot to mention yet another tid-bit about this Safari release...
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By Will on
6/13/2007
I just wanted to hit on a very good point when it comes to the Safari web browser... SPEED.
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By Will on
6/11/2007
A friend and colleague just sent me a link to the download page for the Safari web browser. I was instantly impressed that Apple is attempting to make their web browser a serious player in the Internet world by making it a cross-platform player, but I am equally not impressed with this release.
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