I still create compiled help files for most of DNNDev.com's modules, including XMod and XMod Pro. The primary reason for this is to provide a single-file solution that has a clickable table-of-contents and topics that can link to one another. However, security changes at Microsoft make compiled help files tricky to open for some people. Here's how to open them

A new week and a new version of XMod Pro for your DNN'ing pleasure. What's new and changed for the 1.3 version of XMod Pro for DotNetNuke (DNN)? Read On…

This is just a quick note to give you the current status of the upcoming release of XMod Pro 1.3. I had originally hoped to have the version release by today. However, I wasn't happy with the syntax for using data from the within your forms. I'm currently working to simplify it. I have also found a way to catch more of those elusive errors and am working on that implementation. Assuming all goes well, I'm still looking to release sometime this week.

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With the recent upgrade of DNNDev.com to DNN 5, I've updated a number of modules – among them the DNN Blog module. I've been blogging very irregularly for a couple of years on the site. Previously I limited my missives to just product and site news and announcements mostly. The main reason for this is that the Blog module historically has not been quite up-to-snuff. It was OK for very basic blogging, but since my blogging involved a lot of source code, the module's editor caused more than a few frustrated episodes as it blew up my painstakingly formatted code snippets.  Since I didn't have time to write my own module to overcome the limitations of the Blog module, I ended up only posting when it was required or when I had a LOT of time to properly craft my posts. All that (well, most of that) has changed with the recent upgrades.

Since version 1.0, XMod Pro has enabled you to execute stored procedures. Beginning in the upcoming 1.3 version, you'll have a cleaner way to do that and, more importantly, you'll be able to work with SQL Output parameters to boot! In this article, I'll explore this new feature set in XMod Pro and show you how to start using it today

A new maintenance patch has been released for XMod 5.5. Here's a look at what's changed…

One problem I'm always running into when developing for XMod and XMod Pro is how to overcome the inherent limitation that ASP.NET imposes on the code it runs – namely, that each ASP.NET page can have only the one FORM tag that it renders to the page.

I've gotten a few questions lately about the behavior of the CAPTCHA control in XMod Pro forms running in DNN 5. It's been discovered that if you leave the input blank on the CAPTCHA control, you are allowed to submit the form. Could this be true? Well, yes-and-no.

Part 3 of the series covered modifying the form and template to enable adding and updating records. In part 4 we'll handle deleting records.

Highly interactive page elements or techniques often require additional work and code to test – regardless of your testing framework. A good case is testing rich text editors. In this blog I’ll provide a technique for testing the FCKeditor that comes standard in DotNetNuke (DNN).