Last year at OpenForce Connections in Las Vegas, Shaun Walker announced an updated release policy. The goal in 2010 was to move to a monthly maintenance release schedule along with Quarterly major releases. Prior to this policy announcement, releases were quite sporadic which made it difficult for our internal planning purposes, and also made it difficult for our users to schedule their own upgrade testing and deployment. When we first committed to this new release schedule, we knew that it was...

Ever since an updated version of Telerik assembly was shipped with DotNetNuke 5.4, people have continued to report that the Telerik assembly is missing from the \bin folder in the upgrade package. Given the number of reports related to this issue, it is clear that there is a lack of available documentation for how DotNetNuke is packaged. Some of these problems will be helped by the new wiki project that is being worked on by the Core Reference team. The wiki will provide a place where we can do...

Last night we posted another beta of DotNetNuke 5.5 which you can access from the beta release page on DotNetNuke.com. This is probably your last chance to provide feedback on the 5.5 release as we are nearing completion of the testing cycle. You can have a direct impact on the quality of the 5.5 release if you act today. Since the last beta release 2 weeks ago, the DotNetNuke team has been busy cleaning up bugs and validating the user scenarios for the new Content Localization feature. During ...

Like many other folks involved with Open Source, I will be attending OSCON 2010 in Portland, Oregon this coming week. OSCON is an annual convention for the discussion of free and open source software. It is organized by publisher O'Reilly Media and is held each summer in the United States. Last time I attended OSCON was in 2008 when DotNetNuke received a bursary for being one of the first open source CMS platforms to provide integration for OpenID. This time around there are no awards; however,...

I have often heard it said that people have difficulty creating skins for DotNetNuke. I am always baffled when I hear these comments especially in light of what I see in the competing skinning engines on other platforms. In this series of posts I’ll be looking at the basics of DotNetNuke Skinning, creating a complete DotNetNuke skin and associated containers, dispelling a few Myths and Misconceptions about DotNetNuke Skinning and finally we’ll wrap up the series by comparing the DotNetNuke skin...

Just a quick note to point you to a good blog post on how to set up your machine so you don't have to keep logging in to different TFS instances. I log in to 2 CodePlex TFS instances, the DNN TFS instance and a local one on my setup and I never have to login. So follow this tip http://blog.prabir.me/post/Save-Team-Foundation-Server-Password.aspx More ...

I have often heard it said that people have difficulty creating skins for DotNetNuke. I am always baffled when I hear these comments especially in light of what I see in the competing skinning engines on other platforms. In this series of posts I’ll be looking at the basics of DotNetNuke Skinning, creating a complete DotNetNuke skin and associated containers, dispelling a few Myths and Misconceptions about DotNetNuke Skinning and finally we’ll wrap up the series by comparing the DotNetNuke skin...

Ever since the localization framework was first introduced in DotNetNuke 3.0, it has always been our intention to go back and complete the localization story for DotNetNuke. When localization was first introduced in DotNetNuke, we only tackled the localization of static strings. This support for the localization of static strings was sufficient to address the needs of many international users, however it was not adequate for addressing multi-lingual sites. We realized from the beginning that co...

I am pleased to announce the release of DotNetNuke 5.4.4. This maintenance release resolve’s two significant breaking changes that slipped through in 5.4.3 and resulted in us pulling the 5.4.3 release. Below are the highlights from this months release. As usual, you can see a full list of changes in the changelog . Tags: DotNetNuke,Release Category: DotNetNuke Corporation

I have often heard it said that people have difficulty creating skins for DotNetNuke. I am always baffled when I hear these comments especially in light of what I see in the competing skinning engines on other platforms. In this series of posts I’ll be looking at the basics of DotNetNuke Skinning, creating a complete DotNetNuke skin and associated containers, dispelling a few Myths and Misconceptions about DotNetNuke Skinning and finally we’ll wrap up the series by comparing the DotNetNuke skin...