1. 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+

2. Presenter  Michael Washington  Webmaster@ADefWebserver.com  Core member of DotNetNuke®  Creator of the Creating a DotNetNuke® Module For absolute beginners! series of tutorialsCreating a DotNetNuke® Module For absolute beginners!

3. Agenda  DotNetNuke® Overview  The DAL+  Demo  Questions

4. 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

5. 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

6. Modules Design Create Module Project (Developer) Replace Implement Custom Functionality (Developer) Package Package Module for Installation (Developer) Deploy Install into Portal (Admin)

7. Previous development process (DNN 3)  Configuration was difficult  Data Access Layer was difficult to understand

8. 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

9. 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.

10. The DAL+ Public Function GetItems(ByVal ModuleId As Integer) As ArrayList Return CBO.FillCollection(DataProvider.Instance().ExecuteReader("GetItems",ModuleId), GetType(ItemInfo)) End Function

11. Demo  Create DAL+ “Things For Sale” Module

12. Questions?