One of the things that has been bubbling away at the back of my thoughts for a while now is ‘DotNetNuke needs an API’.  Of course, DNN already has loads of API, what I mean by this is an open, extendable, web-service style API.  Lots of times I come across something I need to do, and I immediately think – ‘now this is where an API would be handy’.  So, with a concrete project that I needed to do that really was best done with an API, I turned thoughts into code, and the result is a very early stage DNN Web service API.

I spent a whole cache of hours yesterday tracking down a bug reported with the iFinity Friendly Url Provider. This bug was that the RSS feed button which is in-built into DNN modules didn’t work. The problem turned out to be the same old thing that causes the majority of incompatibility between my Friendly Url Provider and other DNN Core functions and DNN Modules – misuse or non-use of the Friendly Url Provider API. So, please, if anyone writes DNN code for anything, please see what I have to say

With IIS7 starting to make inroads into the installed DNN base, I've fielded a few questions about IIS7 compatibility and my existing work with DotNetNuke friendly Urls.  I know things are going to change in the future with the upcoming DNN 5 release and (probably) taking advantage of native IIS7 features.  Here's my outlook on what we might expect.

Ever since I decided to write a more comprehensive version of the iFinity Friendly Url Provider, I've had plenty of feedback, tips and requests for features.   I've got the Beta version ready for testing, and the final release won't be far behind.  Read the details on what it is and what it does.

The Tagger module is proving to be quite popular and has been implemented on quite a few sites.  I've had a couple of questions relating to it's use and how exactly to get the best from it, so here's some insight into how it works, and how to get the most from it.

Adding reports to DNN is really easy, yet you don't see too much of it.  Here's a couple of Free reports you can add to your Site Log reports section, and they take about 10 seconds to install. No cost and no effort - you can't beat that combination!

This is one of those things that get me from time to time.  For some reason a module install fails in the Sql Data Provider, and you can't work out why. The timespan between each happening is just enough for me to forget the reason and send me on a fruitless chase.  So I'm going to commit the answer to blog and solve it once and for all.

Today I did a quite simple search - find me a Regex expression and some C# code to parse all the key/value pairs from a Url Query string.  I turned up nothing useful, so here's my contribution to the Google cache.

I've blogged about unit testing with DotNetNuke before, and it has been working very well for me for a long time. I've got unit testing built into my build routines and even quality reporting in my TFS setup. But then along came a thing called DNN 4.8.0 and it all broke.

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I've revamped the DotNetNuke Google Sitemap Providers code and added a new Articles sitemap provider, for the Ventrian Articles module. It's now even easier to create complete listings of all the Urls in your DotNetNuke site.