Hey friends. Most of the time, when a connection string is required, developers write it either manually, or use visual studio wizard from somewhere take make visual studio slower. So here is a quick fast way to do it. Let's build it more faster and easier way.
Right click on desktop and create a new text document, say cn.txt
Open that document and save it with .udl extension, cn.udl.
save and close the file
you will notice the file icon is now changed
double click the icon.
that will open a connection string dialog, same as you see in visual studio.
choose provider, enter other details acoording to your provider and just test connection and click on ok
right click that file, and open it in notepad. The file will contain connection string.
Copy the connection string and use it anywhere you want.
Dotnetnuke released a new dotnetnuke menu provider some time back, and also released dotnetnuke 5.0 with inbuilt support of JQuery. When I started learning about new things in dotnetnuke 5.0, I wonder how we can use JQuery and new menu provider feature to dynamically change the menu. This leads me to a very basic simple implementation which I will share with all of you here.
So let's start building the sample right away:
Right click on Admin/Skins folder and add a new web control(C#), let's name it SwitchMenu.ascx
hey All, Thanks for evaluating all the free skins. I'm not quite getting any response or feedback from any of the users. Please get back to me with some suggessions, feedbacks and bugs so that I can countinue working with skin. Tell me which are the sites you are using these skins. Also post suggessions about which xhtml template you like to see as free dotnetnuke skin? Thanks for the greate help again.
Hey Dotnetnuke navigation provider is also upgraded with many new releases of dotnetnuke. I come across some nice demo of all new features. Now you can create an entire menu css using a single attribut in dnnNav control with CSSControl attribute. There are some good tutorial video to learning this new feature at : http://www.codeendeavors.com/. MimimalExtropy skin in download section of this website is very usefull for learning the new provider. Hope this also help you.
Hey, Welcome back! I'm learning Dotnetnuke 5.0 skinning, and I think I must share some of the beautiful things I like about dotnetnuke 5.0 skinning and packaging. When I come to know that dotnetnuke 5.0 skinning introduces a new packaging for skin install and that includes xml file with .dnn extension. It contains license, release notes and version text. Another thing was, each file you want to include in package should have an entry in .dnn xml file. So that is really a boaring task. Creating node and adding and tags for each of the package file. So I thought we can just write a console application that generates the .dnn file for us. And thinking about using System.IO and System.Xml namespaces of .net framework to do so. But you know, I then come across a feature. If you login to host and go to Host > Skin and if you are in edit mode, it will show you an option 'Create Skin package'. That will help you create a skin package for your existing skin. So here is how I develop a new skin:
Create a folder for skin, copy version.txt, releasenotes.txt, license.txt and a single .ascx control with
Copy .dnn file from existing skin, and rename it by your skin name.
Remove all file entries in the skin section and add your 5 entries.
zip and install skin.
start developing skin, add images and css.
use create package wizard to regenerate the dnn file again with all your files.
