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Visual Studio IDE Macro – Build Events

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:20:00 GMT

In Visual Studio we can create macros that plug in to the Evironment Events. The Macro in this blog post will output to the Build window the date and time the Process was completed. Whilst the macro is simple it is a great starting point for Building more macros that utilise the Visual Studio IDE.

Category: Development

Neat way to consume web services in DotNetNuke

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:22:00 GMT

DotNetNuke and web services, they were simple back in the day but things have changed in the .NET framework.

For Web Services mostly you will be told to modify the web.config which for me is a not very nice and another thing to manage when you are deploying your module. With a few lines this can be done in code and is my preferred solution.

Category: Development

SQL Procedures or Delegated Functions

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:44:19 GMT

My last DotNetNuke module required quite a few views over the data and the design showed me that I would be hitting the Database a lot to get the desired results. Since the data was all based on a major snapshot I went down the route of using Delegated functions to do all the work. I am more than happy with the results.

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Public Release of PageSearch Module for DotNetNuke

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:37:15 GMT

After some good feedback and a few tweaks. Adding that the tweaks were not with the engine but rather with the interaction, we have released the module for Public Release.

With the spirit of FREE the module is. We require that you only download and install it.

Later this month you will see some posts on tip and trick for the module integration in a DotNetNuke site.

Download the module now!

Enjoy!

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PageSearch module Finished

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:28:59 GMT

I have finished up the Page Search module that I blogged about previously. The Integration with DotNetNuke is quite tight. If you are interested in having the module for your DotNetNuke solution, then drop me a line leigh.pointerATsubzero-solutions.net. It is not often you can get things for free (100% free) but this module is.

Enjoy ;)

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DotNetNuke World 2011

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:49:00 GMT

Unfortunately I was unable to attend the DotNetNuke World 2011 Conference in Orlando this year but I was able to attend Shaun Walkers DNNWorld Keynote Webcast on November 10^th. It would have been better to be there but due to a forthcoming move to Spain from Italy this was never going to happen.

Category: News

DotNetNuke Module - PageSearch

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:30:00 GMT

I thought I would release a new module for DotNetNuke, but what? After a thought, I have always liked the idea of adding a nice user feedback to the search interface in DotNetNuke. So I sat down and created the PageSearch. This was going to be a simple module that scanned the contents of a page and highlighted the word or phrase in the page. As time moved on in the development stage I clearly saw that I could extend the functionality further with zero configuration to DotNetNuke itself.

Category: Modules

Category: Development

RESX Translations; very smart tools

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:29:17 GMT

I have been working on a few modules and require that they have a translation to another language. Working in Visual Studio is a headache and doing it on line with DotNetNuke is time consuming.

A little buzz around the net and something popped up on Codeplex the RESXTranslator it gives you a very nice side by side work area and also the ability to use Bing Translator to do the translation. To use Bing you will need a Bing AppID but that is free. On a Bing note, personally I would not just run with Bing but it is a good starting point.

Project Description

Tool for non-developers to quickly translate resource files (resx) in .NET projects to multiple languages in parallel. Shows a tree view of all resources and all translation strings in parallel, one column per language. Compatible with VS2008 and VS2010.

But I didn't stop there. Finding this tool although adequate I stumbled on another that looked like it needed to be checked out. http://www.zeta-resource-editor.com/ this tool rocks! You are able to use either Bing or Google translation API.

Project Description

Zeta Resource Editor is a free application that enables you to edit standard Microsoft .NET string resources from multiple different resource files together inside one single data grid.

This simplifies the translation of strings to multiple different languages by providing you a compact and effective overview of all languages of each string resources inside a single data grid.

Built-in automatic checks for missing translations and different number of string format placeholders helps you in increasing the quality of your translations.

The features are rich and would suggest you check it out. http://www.zeta-resource-editor.com/features.html

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Paper Cut; but not the type that hurts!

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:38:00 GMT

Did you ever try sending out a mail on a application installed on a localhost, but the mail will not be delivered because it requires a SMTP and on localhost this can be a tough thing to setup, but with Papercut you can test sending mails from your application.

Tags: DotNetNuke,utilities,email

Category: Tips

Sunday SVN

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:59:04 GMT

One of the things I have been meaning to do for the company is to set up a decent SVN system. This Sunday I put some spare time to go use. Remembering some time ago that Axosoft released and pretty nice (and free) add on to Visual Studio, so I started there. RocketSVN was and is slick, and to my delight found that they are now offering a server version of RocketSVN (for free) so I was geared up to get this cool suite of software up and running! A few hours later I am moving all source code over from my Dropbox account to the Subzero Solutions source code repository.

The next steps will be to give me a secure and comfortable solution for backing the repository up. The Repository will be backed up to my new ADrive account.

Bottom Line, in cost: Only time and zero cents.

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