Building High-Performance modules in DNN6 with C# 4.0, LINQ2Entities, and Visual Studio 2010

• Introduction
• System requirements
• Cleaning up the DotNetNuke default website
• Creating the empty ASP.NET web application
• Setting the DotNetNuke bin folder
• Creating the app_localresources folder
• Adding a referance to the DotNetNuke.DLL file
• Building the module folder structure
• Creating the SQLDataProvider script files
• How to configure build properties

Video 2 - Creating the Three Controls : View, Edit and Settings

• Registering the module in DotNetNuke
• Creating the View control
• Configuring the view .ascx file
• Adding classes
• Introduction to the three main DotNetNuke module controls
• Creating the Edit and Settings control
• Configuring DotNetNuke to use these new controls

Video 3 - Implementing the Database

• Creating a new table directly in the database
• Creating the table fields
• Setting the primary key
• How to create the 'Create Table' SQL script
• How to create the uninstall script
• Creating the Entity Data Model to connect to the DNN database
• Making a Linq2Entities model compatible with DotNetNuke

Video 4 - Implementing the Module

• Creating a literal control to display information from the database
• Creating an empty page load function
• Creating the code to pull information from the database
• How to give a module control over its pop up menu
• Adding the 'Edit Content' link
• Creating the edit control HTML
• Instructing the module to use the pre determined DNN text editor
• Creating the save and cancel buttons
• How to create a DNN resource file for module localisation
• Creating the edit control code
• The edit page load code
• The edit page save code

Video 5 - Designing for the Future: Creating Controller Classes

• Creating the controller class
• The HTML_Get procedure
• The Update procedure
• Editing the view page load code
• Editing the edit page load code

Video 6 - Fast Lane Performance: Adding Caching and Debugging

• Introduction to module caching
• Benefits of the controller class
• The Item_CacheKey method
• Querying the DotNetNuke cache
• Updating the DotNetNuke cache
• How to debug the module code
• Attaching a process
• Verifying that the cache is working correctly

Video 7 - Packaging the module for release (Released December 22nd)

• Setting the module version number
• Removing the web.config files
• Removing the DotNetNuke.web.dll file
• Reviewing the install.xml file
• Locating the install package