I’ve used Ventrian’s Property Agent (PA) for a lot of projects on DNN.  Pretty much anytime a client needs a way to “catalog” information and organize it by category Property Agent fits the bill. Property Agent for DotNetNuke (4.5.5+) is a m...

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Working on some new skins recently (using this super slick toolset from Artisteer) I started wondering why it's so damn hard to make a DNN site look good – I mean really good. One of the things I noticed about some solutions that compete with DNN (W...

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Creating skins for DotNetNuke is a real pain in the ass.  Modifying someone else’s skins is a pain in some other parts – mostly the brain.  The skinning engine for DNN is a powerful one and while a talented designer/programmer can create so...

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A big topic of discussion around some of the DNN forums lately has centered on the DNN registration process and how much it sucks.  A few vendors offer solutions to a core registration form that’s so ugly only a developer could love [or use] it....

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Where have I been?  I rediscovered my old site here at overlooktechnology.com as part of a skinning application I was testing and thought – why haven’t I been keeping up with this site? Well, the list turned out to be pretty long; my job, my ot...

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I spent the weekend installing a fresh copy of Windows Vista on my development laptop. Getting everything re-installed and configured to run Visual Studio, Deklarir and DotNetNuke again took some doing. Here is what I learned

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How to "fix" Catalook 5.20 so it runs on DNN 4.5 (requires source version of Catalook)

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So now I have Vista installed, Visual Studio and SQL Server are playing nicely and I have working DotNetNuke projects. Last step, install Deklarit.

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Moving my DNN projects from my XP Backup to Vista was yet another "interesting" experience.  I had read a few posts on the DNN forums (www.dotnetnuke.com) about core team members who had been running DNN on Vista for a while, a few even posted s...

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