Introduction to DotNetNuke 6(Uncensored)

Antonio Chagoury

CapArea .NET, October 2011

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About Me

• CEO & Software Architect @ Inspector IT• Microsoft MVP – Visual Basic• DotNetNuke Core Team Member• DotNetNuke Project Lead, Blog Module• Co-Founder and President of the Capital

DotNetNuke User Group (CDUG) • CapArea Elf• DotNetNuke Junkie since 2003

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Agenda

• History, then and now• What’s new• Demos• Commercial enterprise features• Q&A

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Then . . .

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Then… let’s not forget the COMMUNITY!

DEVELOPERCOMMUNITY

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Then . . . & Now

= 10k lines of code

= 280k+ lines of code

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What’s New: Community Edition

• C# Converstion• User Interface overhaul• New Default Website Template• New Control Panel• Improved Page Management• Categorize Modules• Telerik RadEditor Provider• Mega Menu Provider• Folder Provider• App Gallery• Fresh Icons + API

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What’s New: Commercial Editions

• Amazon S3 Folder Provider• Windows Azure Folder Provider• Commerce Module• SharePoint Connector

Will not be demonstrating these features

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DotNetNuke 6.0 Switches Language

• Converted from VB.NET to C#• Converted 1236 code files to C#• 662 net-new C# files added• Much of conversion was automated, but• Required lots of human intervention, testing

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Quality Control

• Over 1500 manual test cases• Over 500 automated test cases• Test cases, manual and automated are added

with each release cycle

DEMO

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User Interface

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Icon API

• Access Icon Images with a simple API• Accessible by Developers and Skin Designers• Images are stored in Icons/Sigma folder• Convention: key_widthXheight_Style.png

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Icon API (Cont’d)

• The OLD way:.ImageUrl = “~/images/add.gif”

• The NEW way:.ImageUrl = IconURL(String key);.ImageUrl = IconURL(String key, string size);.ImageUrl = IconURL(String key, string size, string style);

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Rad Editor Updates

• Minified – less icons on toolbar• Ability to configure the editor (no more

manual web config changes)• Portal, Role or Page based configurations

DEMO

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Rad Editor

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Azure & Amazon Folder Providers

DotNetNuke

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SharePoint Connector

DotNetNuke

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Resources

• DotNetNuke• DotNetNuke World 2011, Orlando• My Blog• My Company Website

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http://linkedin.com/in/antoniochagoury

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