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The new DotNetNuke store arrived last week – and what a momentous day for vendors like myself who use the platform extensively.    The old Snowcovered store had remained quite stagnant for a long time, and while it had many strengths, there were a lot of weaknesses that needed to be fixed.  This  has been done, and everything is good!

Well, almost everything.  One feature that vendors use extensively is the ability to track visitors to both their product page and their vendor page.  While a vendor like myself has no idea overall what sort of traffic the site gets, we have the ability to create a Google Analytics account and see traffic to ‘our’ specific pages in the site.

One of the big changes with Snowcovered to DotNetNuke store was, of course, the domain name.  And anyone who knows anything about Google Analytics should know that it works on a combination of your tracking ID and the domain name. 

So it should be no surprised that many people will see analytics graphs that look something...

The 13th February, 2012, marks 10 years since the .NET Framework 1.0 was released, well, according to Wikipedia, anyway.  I don’t recall the specific date, but I remember the general period vividly.

This little point of achievement will probably pass most people by as they spend another day creating new software based on this platform, or use one of millions of websites that the platform provides, or any number ways of interacting what has become an incredibly successful framework by any standard to measure.  But I thought it might be fun to just pause for a minute and reflect back on the last decade.

Is ten years such a long time?  Realistically, in computer industry years, it’s an absolute eternity.  The internet has really only been around for most people since the late ‘90s. The Windows 95 platform only lasted for 5 or so years before being dropped.  Visual Basic (the original version) went from 1.0 to 6.0 in 7 years, before...