DotNetNuke Blog: I believe that Silverlight will drive growth in the DotNetNuke community. Most Silverlight applications will still require membership, authentication and access to data. As many in the DotNetNuke community already know these things are easily provided by leveraging the DotNetNuke framework.

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"When evaluating solutions, it is certainly not unrealistic to think that other similar organizations have encountered the same challenges as you, and have already worked with software developers to come up with viable solutions. The probability of this being true is much higher for open source software than it is for proprietary or custom software, simply because of its highly accessible nature and large interactive community. So would you rather build your business on a software application which is used by 5 users or 500,000 users? I think the choice is obvious."

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"One of my favourite clients (he let me ride his new motor bike) created this comparison grid when they were deciding on a platform for the future. They chose DNN of course. This is the list of CMS's they investigated. AxCMS.net Cuyahoga DotNetNuke mojoPortal MOSS 2007 OXX Publisher 3 Powerslave ECMS QuickerSite Rainbow redcms(c) Sitecore V5 Smartsite CMS TrioVis.CMS umbraco VWD-CMS The table is very comprehensive and should serve you well when talking to your clients."

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"With all of this excitement and passion in the PowerShell community, how could I not look to see how I could use PowerShell with DotNetNuke.  Thus was born my session idea:  PowerShell for DotNetNuke which I will be presenting in Las Vegas at OpenForce '07.  During my session I will be showing how you can use PowerShell to enhance managing DotNetNuke, both for installing new sites and for sites that are already up and running."

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I'm still in need to read this InfoWorld article in its entirety, but thought it was worth mentioning now.  InfoWorld's Mike Heck has written an article, Open source CMSes prove well worth the price, which reviews and compares five content management systems.  The five CMS under review are Alfresco, DotNetNuke, Drupal, Joomla, and Plone.

The good news is that all five CMS ranked Very Good or higher. However, Alfresco was the only CMS that ranked Excellent with a score of 9.2.  Plone 3.0 received the second highest ranking with a score of 8.6.  DotNetNuke and Joomla tied for third and fourth place with a score of 8.4 which put Drupal a fraction lower with a score of 8.3.  While none of these CMS ranked poorly, I'm sure the open source communities are bound to scrutinize over how the individual criteria were scored and ranked.

" Nothing is ever easy in life.  The release of 4.6.0 and the subsequent release of 4.6.1 proved that.  4.6.1 was primarily concerned with fixing a couple of very nasty bugs from the 4.6.0 build.  The two worst bugs included a breaking change to the behavior of ModuleSettingsBase and a defect in the UserSettings page that caused the system to overwrite your usersettings whenever someone logged in.  Unfortunately, when we attempted to roll back the changes to ModuleSettingsBase to the pre-4.6.0 code, we did not get all of the relevant code rolled back.  This only made the breaking change worse.  This prompted us to take the unusual step of completely removing the 4.6.1 download until we could get a new version coded, tested and built to put back online.  Last night we posted the new 4.6.2 version which fixed the breaking change."

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"When DotNetNuke released version 4.5, we decided that the next version of Active Forums would only support DotNetNuke 4.5 and higher. Why? Because it's the best release we have seen yet and offers some of the latest technology functions that we can leverage in our products. If you haven't upgraded yet, why not?

What I find really amazing is that we have had a handful of new customers purchase Active Forums 3.7 only to find out that they are stuck on an older version of DotNetNuke. DotNetNuke 3.x hasn't seen a release since 11/30/2006 and that was marked as the final release for ASP.NET 1.1.

Let's look at some reasons you could be stuck on an older version and how to avoid them."

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"DotNetNuke 4.4 introduced a number of performance enhancements. Many of these enhancements required the creation of new overloads of some common methods and deprecation of the existing methods.

It is important for module developers, who wish their modules to take advantage of the new performance features to update their modules for performance."

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"This tutorial will build a sample module that implements the Popup Control Extender from the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Control toolkit. The extender will be used to display a list of names in a drop-down when the user clicks on the text box. The user will be able to type a name in the text box or select a name from the drop-down list."

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"A new version of the forums module, 03.20.09, has just been released to address some critical security issues. The vulnerabilites that have been fixed were all cross-site scripting issues (XSS), where malicious users could potentially inject dangerous html and javascript into forum content."

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