Bilal Haidar [MVP, MCT] Official Blog

You can now check the DnnCreative Magazine Issue 10!! This is a completely free issue. For issue 10 we have created a completely separate DotNetNuke Skinning Resource, the DotNetNuke Skinning Toolkit. This is a 98 page resource which demonstrates all of the skin classes within DotNetNuke so that you can easily view, search and learn how to style ...

The latest issue of DNNCreative Newsletter continues exploring CSS.  It covers creating CSS containers, right through to using CSS within the content of the page for part 2 of styling your text and images. This issue continues the How to Build a Website in DotNetNuke series and comes complete with 16 video tutorials. View issue ...

LebDev.NET Usergroup, officially announced its new website that has been published few days ago. A new website has been added to my DotNetNuke Website collection. To check all my DotNetNuke websites, here is the list up till now: www.devconnect.net www.lebdev.net Regards  

I have made slight changes on the FixLogin module in such a way, the super user or the *host* account will be able to change the *Redirect To* page online, using the DNN website. In the first version, although I had a Setting variable to change that page, however, there was no way for anyone to change it, since the module was all the times ...

In a new DotNetNuke 3.2.2 website I am working on, supposedly will be online this coming week, I faced the following problem: DotNetNuke uses by default a Login Page. So, when users come to sign in, if authenticated they will be redirect to the page they were accessing it. The problem with the default Login page is that, all modules added to ...

I was developing a Custom Registration Module in DotNetNuke. I followed the same technique used in the default registration module that comes with DotNetNuke, however, I had to do my own cutomizations and using my own tables and objects. I noticed the heavy use of AddModuleMessage used by this module. This method does nothing but show a message ...

When you developer an ASP.NET web application or a DotNetNuke application, you will be having all types of file extensions: .csproj .cs .vb .su .sln etc ... So, imagine you are developing a huge web application or even a DotNetNuke website and now it is time to deploy your application. Are you going to go through each single folder in ...

While developing Custom Modules in DotNetNuke, there comes a time where  you need to debug your modules, or specific user controls. You can download the dnndebug.aspx page from the following link: DNNDebug.aspx All you need to do is place this aspx page in the root of your DNN installation, and give it the full path of the control you ...

Sometimes in an ASP.NET (1.x/2.x) webform, we might have a Password TextBox, and one of the DropDownLists or RadiobuttonLists or any control present inside the web form might do a postback before you need to submit the form. Every time this happens, I loose the Password TextBox value. A solution that might help you preserve the Password ...

I have recently started working with DotNetNuke, this is my first post in the DotNetNuke category, so expect I will be posting more often here in this section. To start with, I would like to point all DNN developers about a great link where they can download CodeSmith Templates for creating DotNetNuke Modules. You can visit: VS.NET 2003 Project ...