There are just some days when things unexpectedly crash, and you have no clue why. This time I installed a brand new DNN 05.01.02 and could not save the Site Settings. The message: “language cannot be null” was clear enough. But when I went down the languages dropdown … it was empty. Seconds later I was in my SQL Mgt Studio trying to figure out if it was related to data, and it sure was. Here is a fix.

Ever wondered if you could also have glitzy code highlighting you so often see on other sites on your own blog? But you’re using the core blog module and you’re not quite sure how to do that? Well, I felt the same. I set about looking for the various alternatives. The goal was to find a way in which I could insert code blocks into my Windows Live Writer (WLW) and be done with it. I.e. those code blocks should make it to the blog without any intervention (read: HTML source modifying). There are several plugins for WLW that do source highlighting and I’m not going to claim the solution I have is the best. I guess they all have their merits. But the combo I eventually ended up targeting is Alex Gorbatchev’s highlighter in combination with the precode plugin for WLW. The choice was made easier when I found none other than Scott Hanselman himself had written a post about this highlighter. So here is how to integrate this into DNN Blog 03.05.01 in 3 simple steps.

The latest stabilization release of DMX has just been released

WebDAV is a very powerful feature of DMX that allows you to access the documents ‘directly’ from Windows or any other client that supports the protocol. If you experience issues getting this to work this article might help you identify where things are going wrong.

This has been some time in the making, but as of today, it’s official. In the latest Core Team shake up, I have been promoted to core team member of the DotNetNuke project. What does this mean?

After the summer holidays it’s time to get back to work. Over the past weeks a new release of DMX has been prepared with a number of fixes. Notably one that prevented notifications to properly work on DNN 5.1. Read more about the changes here.

After the good news for OpenForce US for this year (see this post) I am very pleased to have been selected to present at OpenForce EU as well. The sessions are entitled "Advanced Module Development in DNN", and "Extension Software Protection in DNN".

This has been a long anticipated (and delayed) release. There have been so many significant changes it might as well have been called DMX 6. The enhancements include two major new features: synchronized folders and per folder attributes. I’ll elaborate on these here.

Document Exchange was designed with extensibility in mind. Most extensions are done for private clients, but every now and then a more generic extension emerges and we put it on the website for you to download. In most cases the source code is also available for DMX customers. Today three new extensions were uploaded to the Bring2mind site.