5 of the AppTheory Team (Bryan Andrews, Chris Paterra, Scott Schecter, Ryan Wofford, Max Schneider) went out to Vegas this year for the Open Force conference and saw many of the usual suspects.

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Often times when developing DotNetNuke modules or any other asp.net application an easy way to modularize certain sections of your application is to create user controls for section(s) of functionality and then load them dynamically based upon some environmental criteria. To achieve this in DotNetNuke is not much different than your standard asp.net application. The primary difference you need to account for is the way DotNetNuke handles localization. The key is to override the init event so that the resource file is hooked up high enough in the application life cycle. Below is some sample code to illustrate the process.

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Since DotNetNuke framework operations are so intertwined with database engine communications you will occasionally get some pretty sporadic error messages when this communication is interrupted. One such red herring will present itself when your database has no free space left. You will usually get two symptoms when your database has become full.

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We needed to test out some code we were using to perform an http post of some files to one of our clients CDN. Here is a quick little routine you can use to save any files sent within a web request and check their size against the source you sent.

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DotNetNuke provides two ways to associate help with any module. The first way is referred to as module online help and will touch on it in a moment. The second way, referred to as module help, is controlled via localization and module actions.

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