Thickbox – Show on Page Load
I had a situation where I needed to show a Flash movie in a modal dialog on a Page. Needless to mention, LightBox is the first thing that strikes to mind for such purposes. However, LightBox supports only images. And I needed to show a Flash movie.A quick Google...
DotNetNuke – Having same usernames across multiple portals on the same installation
You might be well aware that DNN allows you to create multiple Portals based on the same physical installation and the database. It even allows the users to be managed independently across Portals, restricting users to the Portal they registered for.However, there is...
DotNetNuke Portals and App Domains
I thought about writing this blog entry while doing a technical review of a book on DotNetNuke 5.x. The soon-to-be-published book (by Packt Publishing) says this about DotNetNuke portals:Parent portals are sites that are defined by a unique URL...
DotNetNuke Optimization – Tips & Tricks
I present below various Tips & Techniques (not in any particular order) for optimization of a typical DotNetNuke installation.I learned these while using DNN over time, while I encountered some of them while browsing over web.A typical DNN install requires...
Enums in Javascript
UPDATE: An updated and enhanced version of this technique is available here:Enums in Javascript - Part 2 Basically, the title says it all. So, without wasting any time, let's see an example of an enum in Javascript.{syntaxhighlighter brush: jscript;fontsize: 100;...
Flash Falling Money Animation
I recently prepared a long Flash movie for one of my Client websites. The movie had the animation of Falling Currency Notes in between it.I thought I should share the Falling Money part of it on my website. So, the .fla & .swf files for the Falling Money animation...
Recompiled Map Module dll for DotNetNuke 5.x
The below issue has been existing for DotNetNuke Map module for a significantly long time.Map Module Edit: Critical ErrorI was recently surprised to see that the latest DNN 5.2.1 release still features the old Map Module 01.00.09 version, that was compiled against DNN...
Scrolling Announcements Module for DotNetNuke
It has been sometime since I created this module. This module is an extension to the core DotNetNuke Announcements module, and is compatible with it. You can have both of them installed side-by-side.It adds scrolling capability to your Announcements. You can scroll...
Trimming a custom character from the end of a T-Sql string
I recently had a situation where I needed to trim a custom character from the right of a string in Sql Server. Although Sql Server provides a RTRIM function, it can only trim spaces from a string.A quick search over web threw up some interesting results, but all of...
FormPanel validation always succeeds without a Layout being a direct and only child of it
Checkout this link in the Coolite examples explorer. It demonstrates validating controls that are inside a FormPanel. I was working on a similar control hierarchy, but the isValid() method on FormPanel's form was always returning true, even when the form was...
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