Hi,

I have installed DotNetNuke 4.5.5 on my localhost.  In attempt to make my Default.aspx page XHTML compliant I have accessed the DNN Creative tutorials as well as traced code as my project is executed through debugging.  I'm weaning down the errors.  The first error I encountered is when the Default.aspx tries to load the page skin user control.  I have used the Default blue - Fixed Width default skin. 

The function signature is

Private Function LoadSkin(ByVal SkinPath As String) As UserControl

When VWD Developer brings up the blue skin fixed width user control,
the initial page directive references a code-behind file which doesn't exist

<%</FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>@</FONT><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT color=#a31515 size=2>Control</FONT><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT color=#ff0000 size=2>Language</FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>="vb"</FONT><FONT size=2> </FONT><FONT color=#ff0000 size=2>Codebehind</FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>="~/admin/Skins/skin.vb"</FONT><FONT size=2> .... </FONT><FONT color=#ff0000 size=2>Inherits</FONT><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>="DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Skin"</FONT><FONT size=2> %>

The skin.vb file does not exist in my installation and causes an error and other problems.  I would appreciate if anyone would dig through the code and perhaps tell me of a remedy for this problem.

Thanks,
altein

I believe that code is compiled into one of the DLLs and you really won't see it unless you download and look into the source package. In the source package, you'll find it in Library/Components/Skins.

But ... you shouldn't need this file ... at least I think that you shouldn't need it.

You say that the file not being present "causes an error and other problems." Can you say more? What error does it cause and what other problems does it cause? Does Lee refer to this file in the tutorials?

On my system, compiling the "install" package with Visual Web Developer Express results in 61 Errors and 10 Warnings, all of them refer to HTML validation stuff in the Blue Horizontal Fixed Width Skin that I'm using. One has to do with now being able to find the source file for Skin.vb, but none of them prevent the site from running.

Most of the errrors are upper case in tags and related to "nowrap" and some outdated HTML. The missing skin.vb file does generate an error when compiled, but it doesn't prevent the site from running.

Hello,

You don't need to go this deep into the code to get the DotNetNuke core code compliant. If you follow these two tutorials it's all you need to do to get DotNetNuke compliant:

• How to create an XHTML Compliant DotNetNuke 4.4
• XHTML Compliant DotNetNuke 4.4 and 4.5 - part 2

You do however need to use a skin that is XHTML compliant, the DNN blue skin will throw lots of errors.  You can use any of these free skins which are XHTML compliant:

• Simple Red Leaf

• Andreas 01
• Andreas 09
• Summer Breeze
• FreeStyle
• Curiously Green