Andrew Hoefling

In DNN the Persona Bar is the admin control bar for managing sites. The Persona Bar is highly customizable from the top-level admin controls to the individual admin modules. The nice thing about developing modules for the Persona Bar is you do not need to use a specific development technique. The platform allows you to inject whatever HTML, JS, and CSS you choose, as long as you follow a few basic rules. Let's look into adding an Uno Platform app into DNN as a Persona Bar Component.

DNN has powerful User Management controls, but sometimes you need to use your companies Azure Active Directory configuration or Office 365 credentials (those are really the same). This provides a robust integration with your organization and whatever content you are trying to serve with DNN

Adding javascript to a DNN Module's Action Menu should not be difficult and it is a common use-case. Let's walk through what a Module Action Menu item is and how to trigger javascript snippets to execute when the admin or other user triggers the event.

Microsoft Build 2019 was this week and lots of big announcements are coming from Microsoft with what the future of .NET and the ecosystem of developer tools looks like. This year there was a HUGE announcement about the future of .NET with the introduction of .NET 5.

When I am developing a DNN Module or even a DNN Platform change I typically configure my development enviornment to output the assemblies in the bin directory or I manually copy over the assemblies and the pdb files. This turns into a very tedious process very quickly when I am trying to rapidly develop or debug DNN Code.

Manually handling storage and retrieval of images and video can be time consuming and error prone because of all the image and video formats. Serving this content can be even harder especially with videos and getting the right codecs is enough to make you not want to do it. 

Using 3rd party tools such as Dropbox and Youtube will greatly reduce your time and risk when creating a photo/video solution. This is just what our team here at Hoefling Software did to deliver a Photo Contest Module built specifically for DNN

Hosting apps in the cloud is common practice due to it's ease of use and performance that smaller organizations may not have on their own. Why not host DNN in the cloud? If you follow our guide here you can be up and running in Microsoft's Azure Web App in a matter of minutes.

It's summer and we have been working around the clock delivering amazing code for our clients at Hoefling Software. We have been excited to deliver many amazing projects including a new blogging platform. As our business has grown it is important to show that our technical blog Andrew Hoefling | Life Through Code is also growin

DNN 9.2 introduces many new features including new routing controls for MVC Modules. Now, when building a MVC Module you can easily Redirect routes between Controllers and Actions at the Controller level. This new feature introduces flexibility that adds feature parity with Microsoft’s MVC implementation. With this change a MVC Module can contain many controllers and actions per controller that handle the complex routing scenarios associated with MVC development. Prior to 9.2 developers were limited to having one controller. While there were workarounds to this limitation until now there wasn’t an elegant way to handle routing in a MVC Module.

I was helping my friend Clint Patterson deploy a new DNN website and recommended that we enforce HTTPS even though for the small website he really didn’t need it. With the ease of tools such as CloudFlare it is really easy to set up and enforce https which not only makes your site secure but makes your users feel comfortable with the lock icon displaying in the browser.