Philip Beadle's Blog

This morning we updated the Online Help Content on the DotNetNuke site.  Most of the new modules ahev been documented and there is more content related to the Admin and Host sections.

DotNetNuke Online Help System 03.00.01 has been officialy released on www.dotnetnuke.com. 

I needed to find out which methods were calling my method so I came up with this snippet that gives you a path from your method to the start of the stack trace.  The DataProvider bit is DotNetNuke specific code, to muse this outside of DNN log it to the event log or something similar.

                Dim st As New Diagnostics.StackTrace()
                Dim methodPath As String = String.Empty
                Dim i As Integer = 0
                For Each fr As Diagnostics.StackFrame In st.GetFrames()
                    methodPath += ">> " & fr.GetMethod.Name
                    i += 1
                Next
                DataProvider.Instance().ExecuteSQL("Insert Into Trace (RawURL, Stack) VALUES ('Frames = " & i & "','" & methodPath & "')")

Ever had one of those Web forms where you enter your password only to hit some button later on and it wipes your password between post backs.  You can reset the value using the following snippet.

txtPassword.Attributes.Add("value", _password)

Woohoo.  We have now finished the DotNetNuke for Dummies book and it scheduled for release on 10th April 2007.

I jsut upgraded my site to DNN 4.4.1 with no issues at all.  Im really looking forward to some of the features we have lined up for this year.  Check out Shaun's post on the new developer licensing system to make it simple for developers to license their products and have their customers stick to the license.

I also had to copy here the first paragraph of the DNN Newsletter this month.

"DotNetNuke® Gets Supercharged; Hosts Note Immediate Performance Increases

From the Web Host Industry Review: "...DotNetNuke [Corporation] announced Monday it has released DotNetNuke version 4.4... DotNetNuke 4.4 is the result of six months of focused performance tuning where the application was repeatedly load-tested, analyzed and re-factored to produce a highly optimized and efficient core engine. Preliminary results indicate that the application is twice as responsive and consumes half the memory of previous versions."

Download DotNetNuke 4.4.1
Official Press Release
"

Cool hey?

The DotnetNuke for Dummies that Lorraine is writing is well on the way to completion.  I have been helping out with the author reviews and we are over half way there now.  All the chapters will be submitted by 1st Feb and hopefully it will be off to the printing from there .  Can't wait. 

I didn't get reawarded my MVP this year which I'm very disappointed about.  So I have decided to get it back as soon as possible.  To do this I am aiming to get onto page 4 of the ASP.Net Hall of Fame.  I was on page 6 a few days ago and have managed to scrape onto page 5 this morning so things are looking good.  I have also just hit 500 posts on www.dotnetnuke.com which should also help out with my eventual reawarding :)

That's me at the bottom aus_nexxus   You can see the hall of fame here http://www.asp.net/resources/community-recognition/hall-of-fame.aspx?tabid=41.

I also cracked a mention on the home page of ASP.Net

Its good to be back in the swing of things at DNN again.  Got my post rate up again.

I just noticed on ASP.Net that the number of posts in the forums has been replaced with the recognition system.  This sounds like a great way to properly recognise our community.  http://www.asp.net/resources/community-recognition/default.aspx?tabid=41.  I really liked how contributions that require a bit of effort such as moderating, replying and submitting articles get recognition now.

http://vstsrocks.com/tutorials/default.aspx