Hi there

I've done a search through the forums and for those of us who have purchased the source code there has been a lot of requests on how to set-up the DNN development environment to allow quick development and debugging.

On each post I have come across the general answer has been to use the provided solution and create an installation package on each build, install it to the DNN test platform and test. Although this works it is quite cumbersome.

Most people like that have posted about this, myself included would like to be able to add the project to an existing DNN website application under the desktop modules folder so that we can develop and run directly from VS and debug. However, when you try and do this with the existing project and code it doesn't work. Even after correcting DLL references etc. there are numerous compiler error messages and despite trying for nearly a full day I never got it working.

What I and it seems quite a lot of your other source code purchasers are asking is how do you setup your development environment so that testing is seamless without having to resort to building installation packages? I know you have tried to answer this before but from what I've found your answers have been quite brief. I'm sure you guys don't create an installation package for debugging each time do you?

If possible, can you describe in detail your own set-up and how you do it? Also, have you tried the solution that many of us have tried with integrating the project into an existing DNN website application? We should be able to get this to work but I can't and although I'm not an expert I have done this plenty of times with other module source code.

I and others I am sure would be most appreciative of a detailed sert-up guide.

Thank you for your time.

Paul M

Paul,

Thanks for highlighting this.

We will provide a DNN Solution integrated project source codes soon, and I agree it would be an option for users like you who wants to integrate with DNN solution for debugging.

So in the future, source codes will include two projects:

1. Integrated with DNN solution.
2. Stand alone project.

So users can choose which one to compile base on their own preference.

Thanks.

Thanks for that, that would be a good solution.

I assume that is going to take some time to sort at your end and so in the meantime can you perhaps give a quick run down on how you guys go about developing/debugging with the current project without having to create a package each time?

Cheers

Paul

Paul,

Since you need to get it working, please drop an email to support @ invenmanager.com, and we will send you the solution file.

Thanks.

Hi there

Thanks for the quick reply, I must admit I wasn't expecting you to be able to send me something and so I have spent quite a bit of time today trying to do it myself and have finally solved all the compiler problems and got it working. Generally the changes consisted of either adding or removing namespaces and imports.

However, I do have a couple of questions if you can help.

The assembly EventsCalendar.Core has been provided but there is no project for it. Is this made up from the two other projects DotNetNuke.Events.ScheduleControl and DotNetNuke.EventsCalendar.WebControls? If so how to you compile two projects into one assembly. If not, where does the Core assembly come from and what are these other two projects used for.

Cheers
Paul

Paul,

Great to know that and you got it working!

For the EventsCalendar.core is another assembly was created by another project, the source codes for this is not provided in the package.

Thanks.

How do you create an installation package? We bought the source code and I made changes to some of the controls, and I have been replacing the DLL's and ASCX on my DNN installation where I installed the Events Calendar. How do I go about to create the installation package? Does the source code comes with a build script to do so or do we have to create one?

Also, I made some changes to a couple of ascx files and when ready I recompiled and copied over all 4 DLL files along with the ascx files containing the changes. Everything worked correctly, but now I am unable to Add/Edit Events. Every time I click the Add New Event or My events link I get the following error:

A critical error has occurred. Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Looking at the EventViewer I can see several errors captured on the log. All referring to the same 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object.'

Any ideas?

Thanks

Gus,

We have replied you at another topic for the same post.