DotNetNuke®Web Application Framework

Michael Washington

http://www.ADefwebserver.com

Webmaster@ADefwebserver.com

Socaldug.org – Buena Park, CA - 2006 Creating a DotNetNuke Module using the DAL+

Presenter Michael Washington Webmaster@ADefWebserver.com Core member of DotNetNuke® Creator of the

Creating a DotNetNuke® Module For absolute beginners! series of tutorials

Agenda

DotNetNuke® Overview The DAL+ Demo Questions

DotNetNuke® Overview Open Source Software Project ( BSD License ) Windows Server / ASP.NET platform Released December 24, 2002 Web Application Framework Based on N-Tier, Object Oriented, Best Practice architecture Used in private sector, public sector, military, non-profit,

community, and individual web sites Active business ecosystem with hundreds of vendors offering

products and services Incubator for complementary Open Source Projects Support for ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 2.0

Modules

Applications for managing a specific type of portal Content

Allows you to extend DotNetNuke without modifying the core framework.

Written in .NET code ( C#, VB.NET, etc… ) Private Assemblies Run-time deployment

Modules

Design

Create Module Project

(Developer)

Replace

Implement Custom

Functionality

(Developer)

Package

Package Module for Installation(Developer)

Deploy

Install into Portal

(Admin)

Previous development process(DNN 3)

Configuration was difficult Data Access Layer was difficult to understand

New development process(DNN 4)

Configuration is no longer needed using the new ASP.NET 2.0 Website project model

The DAL+ simplifies the Data Access Layer

The DAL+ You no longer have to code a separate data provider It adds “Generic Methods” to ease module development.

ExecuteNonQuery - Used to execute a stored procedure that will not return a value.

ExecuteReader - Used to execute a stored procedure that will return multiple records.

ExecuteScalar - Used to execute a stored procedure that will return a single value.

ExecuteSQL - Used to execute an sql statement.

The DAL+

Public Function GetItems(ByVal ModuleId As Integer) As ArrayListReturn CBO.FillCollection(DataProvider.Instance().ExecuteReader("GetItems",ModuleId), GetType(ItemInfo))End Function

Demo Create DAL+ “Things For Sale” Module

Questions?