I want to learn how to programe my own modules. I'm using dnn5.x.
I'm fairly good at general asp.net programming with C# using MSSQL. Im more experienced using LINQ 2 SQL then programming SQL. Is this a drawback?

1What way would you recomend to start developing? It's hard to find beginners material that is not quite old.

2ive never worked with DNN installed on my own machine. I've just used a host that sets it up for me. This is a drawback right? The reason is that I have failed to I install it. Maybe I should properly learn this first to develop my own modules?

I highly recommend the book by Mitchel Sellers as a great starting point. There is also a new book by Michael Washington and Ian Lackey that includes major sections on module development.

Michael Washington's adefwebserver.com site has a lot of useful material on it regarding module development. "Old" doesn't necessarily mean out of date, and Michael's material is still quite useful.

Chris Hammond's contributions at DotNetNuke.com are also notable. The series of videos on creating a Task Management Module should be quite helpful. See http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources...ment.aspx.

Chris also has some blog posts at DotNetNuke.com that discuss setting up a local development environment.

You will certainly want to have a local development environment with DotNetNuke, SQL Server, and Visual Studio. Also see the video on installing DotNetNuke using the Web Platform Installer of Web Matrix here: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources...rade.aspx.

Thanks! Om happy to hear there is so much material. But what are the names of the books?

Sorry. Mitchel Sellers' book is "DotNetNuke Module Programming." You will find it at Amazon and other places. There's a Kindle edition, too, so you can download and read it on your Kindle, iPad, computer, or whatever ...