It’s the holy grail of multi-language websites. If you’re running a French and English website, you want to present your French visitors with text in their language and your English visitors with text in their language. So, if you have built a real estate listing for your site, not only should labels (“Address”, “City”, “Number of Bedrooms”, etc.) be translated, but the actual data should be as well – like the description of the home.

Content localization is a tricky thing to implement. While DotNetNuke (DNN) provides an architecture for dynamically changing the static text in your website, there historically hasn’t been a way to localize the data in your site. XMod Pro’s 2.1 release adds a host of options that should make localization much easier. As of this writing, version 2.1 is in beta and available for download for XMod Pro users to download from the Clients section on the site.

Let’s start with the simple things:

Getting the Current Locale ID To render the locale ID of the currently...

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Have you heard the news? We've just released XMod Pro 2.0.  Just like we've done with XMod, we are letting our customers guide XMod Pro's development. In this release, you will see dramatic improvements in your ability to quickly create forms and views from your DotNetNuke databases. The best news is that, because of our policy of providing a year of upgrade protection to our customers, all XMod Pro 1.x owners get 2.0 for FREE. Read on for a list of new features

Since it's initial release, XMod Pro (XMP) for DotNetNuke (DNN) has been keeping to a pretty regular schedule of a significant release every month – in addition to more frequent maintenance releases. Since all XMod Pro owners automatically have upgrade protection for one full year, all our customers and their clients have been enjoying the latest new features for free. This month is our biggest feature release yet.

Now that XMod Pro (XMP) for DotNetNuke (DNN) has been out for a few months, I'm starting to get a few questions about leveraging it's extensibility. Thus far, I've been responding to requests directly and haven't yet created any documentation for wider distribution. This series will help rectify that. We'll start with the most popular extension – custom form controls.

With XMod Pro and XMod, you can limit the length of the text entered through a (< input > for XMod). However, you cannot limit the length of text in a < textarea >. The reason stems from the underlying TEXTAREA HTML tag that is ultimately rendered for the control which has no maxlength property unlike the HTML INPUT tag which does.  Fortunately, both XMod Pro and XMod provide a way for you to implement a maximum length for the control.

No matter what application we're using, when we run into a problem, it becomes necessary to do a little fact-finding, trying to discover what is causing the problem. XMod Pro is no different in this regard. Knowing where to look can greatly speed up the amount of time it takes to resolve an issue.

I received this question from a customer and not only wanted to post the solution but also provide a couple of things to look for should you encounter similar problems:

"When I attempt to edit any record in my list, the edit form always shows the last record in the table. I followed the examples in creating the forms and templates and have checked my work many times over."

The customer then supplied me with the form and template that was being used. The first thing I did was scan the Template for the Edit button. I wanted to ensure the Edit button (in this case it was an control) was properly formed:

... ... The customer was also using the Alternating template so...

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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.