Development configuration question

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9/15/2009 10:57:13 AM
sunsethill
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Development configuration question

Hi,

I am very new to MojoPortal framework - within the last few days to be exact.  From what I have seen so far - I'm very impressed.

For the last 5 years I have performed a ton of propietary module development work with DNN.  While some people like to knock DNN, it has been very good to me.

I would like to attempt to develop a basic module with MojoPortal - just to get the feel of what is required.  I have had a quick look at the development resources on the site - and I apologize if this has already been covered.

When I develop a DNN module, I only include a reference to the necessary DNN dll's in the project as outlined here:

http://www.sunsethill.ca/Resources/DotNetNuke/IntroductiontoDNN5ModuleDevelopment.aspx

I don't compile the module with the rest of the DNN source code.  Can such an approach work with this framework when developing modules?

Thanks in advance, Al

 

9/15/2009 11:05:22 AM
Joe Audette
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Re: Development configuration question

You can develop against the pre-compiled deployment files of mojoPortal if you don't want to work with the source code.

However I think you then miss out on the benefits of having easy to find and read code examples for almost anything you want to do.

I don't recommend you add files to the mojoportal projects and compile your stuff into the mojoPortal dlls at all.

I recommend you create your own projects in the solution in a similar fashion to how we have orgasnized the mojoPortal.Features projects and the WebStore projects keeping all the code for those projects separate from the core and using post build events to copy the output up to the Web project for runtime.

Hope it helps,

Joe

9/15/2009 11:22:09 AM
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Re: Development configuration question

Thanks Joe.  I will give this a try.  By the way, I have no intention of adding files to the MojoPortal projects - there will be seperate projects for each custom module I build.

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