Entries for September 2009

Well I thought it had all gone smoothly, then I tried to send an email out to the club. Oops, the module we use based on some code I acquired from DNN.com.au decided to fall over. Essentially it was using an out of date method for doing the SQL calls. So I thought now is the time to upgrade from Visual Studio 2003 to 2008, from .Net 1 to 3.5, and DNN 4 to 5. What a major upheaval. I’ve now re-wo...

I’ve done a little work on the site in the last week or so, after a long period of relative inactivity. This is primarily around making joining the club more visible and easy to do. So the Store is now visible in the Join menu, allowing people to register on the site whilst going through the process of paying for membership. This process also automatically gives new members access to the members a...

Well the time had come at last to make the leap to DotNetNuke 5. I’d been sitting and watching the bugs on Gemini until there didn’t seem to be any critical ones left over. This seems to have happened (near enough) with 5.1.2. DNN 5 has also impacted the Events module, with the team having to work around a few bugs in the early versions of DNN 5. So I’ve made the leap of faith and hope there aren...