As some of you might have noticed, removing style sheets with the StyleHelper Skin Object does not work anymore since DotNetNuke 6.1.
(al other functionality still works just fine)
This blog post is about my considerations on this issue.

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As you can read in my previous blog, there's an issue with the DotNetNuke core print skin object in DotNetNuke 6.1. I'm sure this will be solved in a future version, but there is a workaro...

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Because of changes to the action menu in DNN 6, the Print and RSS feed icons don't work anymore. At first I didn't notice this as they do work if the user is logged in, but for an ...

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New release of the 40Fingers DotNetNuke Stylehelper skin object.
Version 02.02.00

Highlights:

1. Improved Redirect Handling
2. Get Backlink to the PAge that casued the redirect
3. Add anything to the Head of the DotNetNuke page
4. Remove Existing DotNetNuke MetaTags
5. Links to Style sheets and Javascript files are now templatable

You can download the new version here: http://dnnskinextensions.codeplex.com/releases/view/73344

Full documentation here: http://www.40fingers.net/WeblogsNews/Weblogs/tabid/58/ID/23/language/en-US/Style-Helper-Skin-Object-Documentation.aspx

 

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Today I discoverd a bug in the DotNetNuke Style Helper Skin Object 02.00.00.
The "IfMobil" attribute, used to detect if a bowser is a mobile browser or not, did not always detect the browser correctly.

This issue has been fixed in this new release: 02.00.01

If you use the mobile detection capabilities, please update your installation with this new release.

You can download the new version of this DotNetNuke  skin object here: http://dnnskinextensions.codeplex.com/releases/view/66281

Full documentation here: http://www.40fingers.net/WeblogsNews/Weblogs/tabid/58/ID/23/language/en-US/Style-Helper-Skin-Object-Documentation.aspx

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Today I released a new version of the 40Fingers DotNetNuke style helper skin object.

The main enhancements are for mobile DotNetNuke skins / websites.
I made detection of mobile browser much easier and you can now redirect the user  to another DotNetNuke page or even website.
 
Also added:
- Set the doctype of the DNN skin.
- Support to add custom attributes to the DNN HTML element as needed for Open Graph protocol.

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Begin 2011 heeft Microsoft de eerste beta van VS LightSwitch met Go-Live licentie gelanceerd, een nieuw product in de Visual Studio familie, waarmee razendsnel zowel web- als desktop SilverLight "Line of Business" applicaties kunnen worden gemaakt. Hoewel de doelgroep van VS LightSwitch niet primair bestaat uit hard-core .net developers, zal het ook voor deze groep zeker waardevol kunnen zijn om de mogelijkheden en beperkingen van LightSwitch te leren kennen.

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Only a few days left before DevDays11 will start in The Netherlands, and while a large part of my schedule is fixed already I decided to run through the agenda and pick a few sessions anyway.

My main interest during DevDays will be Visual Studio LightSwitch, as you will be able to find me most of the time - at least in between sessions - in the Ask The Experts area at the VS LightSwitch boot. So naturally I highly recommend the sessions Beth Massi will be giving on the topic. She's doing 4 of them, one of which during geeknight, so I'm sure you'll be able to catch one.

On april 28th DevDays my highlight will probably be:

9:15 The KeyNote. Keynotes are always a blast.
11:05 Not sure yet, but I might just try and catch the Windows Phone 7 Mango session by Ben Riga.
13:30 Going for the session on REST with WCF by Glenn Block, since I already know a bit about LightSwitch.This timeslot also features Beth's first session on LightSwitch. If you're new to LightSwitch, check it out.
15:05 That'll probably be Mark Miller on UI. It's been a while since I've seen him speak.
16:30 I'll probably try and learn something about Azure this timeslot. But then again I might also pick up on Beth's second appearance on LightSwitch, since we might get questions about that on the boot.

Geek Night night is not something you should plan for, so we'll just see what happens.

9:15 No possible way of predicting how things will look during the first session after Geek Night. So I decided not to plan anything here.
10:50 Only one possible option: Beth Massi on Advanced LightSwitch Techniques. That'll be awesome!
13:15 This will be a hard one. Of course there's Mathijs on WP7 Push Notifications, but there's also Ingo Rammer on Advanced Debuggin in VS2010 which will probably be very useful too.

For the remainder on the conference I actually expect to be busy on the ATE stand for LightSwitch. And I'm looking forward to it too!

Hope to meet you there

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We found a bug in the stylehelper skin object for DotNetNuke.
In certain conditions you could get an "Object reference not set to an instance of an object error" error, if you use the BodyClass attribute...

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After a few minor internally used and tested versions, I released a new version of our DotNetNuke Stylehelper Skin Object on codeplex.

The new version is 01.08.03

It contains

1. A bug fix
2. A correction to the AddMetas attribute
3. A New template option for the AddBodyClass attribute. (you can add a class for the role a user is a member of)

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Today I tried to upgrade my DNN Skin Development installation from 5.3.1 to 5.6.0
I got a SQL provider error on the 5.4.0 script I did not understand at first.

I got this error

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_TabModuleSettings'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.TabModuleSettings'.
Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_TabModuleSettings'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.TabModuleSettings'.

I took me a while but I found the reson for the failure and the solution.

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The reports module is an excellent way to present data from your DNN installation in an ad hoc fashion. One can use it for any table in and outside the DNN installation. In this example we will present a list of events from the events module.

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If your skin has a dark color or an image as the background, there are situations were this background is visible in the editor too.
This can make it very difficult if not impossible to edit the content of your site.
As this question keeps comming up in the DNN Forums and is an issue in the new RAD Editor too, here's how to solve these issues for your skin.

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Since about a month I'm having issues on my development machine with my local DotNetNuke installations.

Sometimes pages load so slow in the browser, I get a timeout or the page only loads only half.

After checking all kinds of possible causes I finally found the solution...

 

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