Christoc module development templates allow us to easily start up a new development project for DotNetNuke. They do require that you already have DotNetNuke running in your development environment.
Introduction
This article explains us to how to create a DNN Module in Visual Studio 2012.In this context here we use Christoc Template for the development..
Hope you have gone through my
Part 1 ArticleLet’s start the Creation of DNN Module through step by step procedure:-
- Step 2:- Now open
Visual studio 2012 In Admin mode and Create new project and click on DotNetNuke and select DotNetnuke 7 C# Complied Module
Template and provide the path which we have created earlier
(C:\websites\dnndev.me\Desktop Modules\) and uncheck Create directory for solution as shown below
- Step 3:-Now
let’s change the Properties of the Module as shown
Right click
on project and select properties and navigate to web and provide Start Url as http://dnndev.me/ and local IIS web server as http://dnndev.me/desktopmodules/ModuleExample
and Override application root url
as http://dnndev.me/
- Step 4:-We can
see our solution as shown below
- Step 5:-Let’s
test our module by inserting a small label message and aspx textboxes and
buttons in the view as shown
<table>
<tr>
<asp:Label ID="lblexample" ForeColor="#0000" Font-Bold="true" Font-Size="Large" runat="server" Text="welcome to Dake Dot net nuke"></asp:Label>
<td>First Name:</td>
<td>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtFirstName" runat="server">
</asp:TextBox>
</td>
<td>
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="rfvFirstName"
runat="server" forecolor="Red"
ControlToValidate="txtFirstName"
ErrorMessage="First Name can't be left blank"
SetFocusOnError="True">*
</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Last Name:</td>
<td>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtLastName" runat="server">
</asp:TextBox></td>
<td>
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator
ID="RequiredFieldValidator1" runat="server" forecolor="Red"
ControlToValidate="txtLastName"
ErrorMessage="Last Name can't be left blank"
SetFocusOnError="True">*
</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>UserName:</td>
<td>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtUserName" runat="server">
</asp:TextBox>
</td>
<td>
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator
ID="rfvUserName"
runat="server" forecolor="Red"
ControlToValidate="txtUserName"
ErrorMessage="UserName can't be left blank"
SetFocusOnError="True">*
</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Password:</td>
<td>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtPwd" runat="server"
TextMode="Password">
</asp:TextBox>
</td>
<td>
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="rfvPwd"
runat="server" forecolor="Red" ControlToValidate="txtPwd"
ErrorMessage="Password can't be left blank"
SetFocusOnError="True">*
</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Confirm Password:</td>
<td>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtRePwd" runat="server"
TextMode="Password">
</asp:TextBox>
</td>
<td>
<asp:CompareValidator ID="CompareValidator1"
runat="server" forecolor="Red"
ControlToCompare="txtRePwd"
ControlToValidate="txtPwd"
Operator="Equal"
ErrorMessage="Password and confirm password do not match"
SetFocusOnError="True">
</asp:CompareValidator>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Gender:</td>
<td>
<asp:RadioButtonList ID="rdoGender"
runat="server">
<asp:ListItem>Male</asp:ListItem>
<asp:ListItem>Female</asp:ListItem>
</asp:RadioButtonList>
</td>
<td>
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator
ID="RequiredFieldValidator2"
runat="server" forecolor="Red"
ControlToValidate="rdoGender"
ErrorMessage="Gender can't be left blank"
SetFocusOnError="True">*
</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Address:</td>
<td>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtAdress" runat="server"
TextMode="MultiLine">
</asp:TextBox>
</td>
<td>
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="rfvAddress"
runat="server" forecolor="Red"
ControlToValidate="txtAdress"
ErrorMessage="Address can't be left blank"
SetFocusOnError="True">*
</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Email ID:</td>
<td>
<asp:TextBox ID="txtEmailID" runat="server">
</asp:TextBox>
</td>
<td>
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator
ID="RequiredFieldValidator3"
runat="server" forecolor="Red"
ControlToValidate="txtEmailID"
ErrorMessage="Email can't be left blank"
SetFocusOnError="True">*
</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:Label ID="lblMsg" runat="server"></asp:Label>
</td>
<td>
<asp:ValidationSummary ID="ValidationSummary1"
runat="server" ShowMessageBox="True"
ShowSummary="False" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<asp:Button ID="btnSave" runat="server"
Text="Sign Up" OnClick="btnSave_Click" />
<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="cancel" />
</td>
</tr>
</table> Let’s build the module make sure that we must compile only
the module and not the entire solution as shown below
After successful build we will find a zip file of our Module
at C:\websites\dnndev.me\DesktopModules\ModuleExample\install
- Step 6:- Now
let’s install the module debug the Project in Release mode as shown
Conclusion
So far we have learned how to code a module..In part 3 we will see how to install the Extension,create a page and assign our module to the page..
Reference
http://www.christoc.com/Projects/Module-Development-Templates