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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.

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.

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.

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!

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 ;)

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.