DotNetNuke includes a default terms statement. The default terms statement is added to a DotNetNuke website via the skin. The details are slightly different dependant upon whether you are creating your skin as a .ascx or an HTML file: HTML At the location where you wish for the link to the terms statement to appear add […]
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Changing Privacy Statement
DotNetNuke includes a default privacy statement. The default privacy statement is added to a DotNetNuke website via the skin. The details are slightly different dependant upon whether you are creating your skin as a .ascx or an HTML file: HTML At the location where you wish for the link to the privacy statement to appear add […]
Enabling DotNetNuke Slider Module
DotNetNuke 7 is including the SlidesJS slider module. SlidesJS is a slideshow plugin for JQuery. It offers a number of options and effects. Further information about the plugin is to be found at slidesjs.com. To incorporate the slider module on a DotNetNuke page add a text/html module to the page. The following code is added […]
System.Web.Extensions has already been imported
Taking an old site from DNN6.0.2 to 7.0.2 I encountered an error. Unlike recent errors relating to the framework version, the error given was: CS1703: An assembly with the same identity ‘System.Web.Extensions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’ has already been imported. Try removing one of the duplicate references. The issue was resolved by removing the file system.web.extensions.dll. […]
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Changing Default Copyright Message
At the bottom of a fresh DotNetNuke install there is a copyright message: Copyright 2013 by DotNetNuke Corporation. The default copyright message can be edited from the site settings page. As an admin user navigate to the Admin>Site Settings page. Expand the Advanced Settings and the Other Settings headings. Change the Copyright message to reflect […]
Emptying the Search Tables
Emptying the DotNetNuke search tables can considerably reduce the size of the DotNetNuke database. It requires access as a host superuser. Having emptied the search tables they will be re-populated, but better optimised, with less items which are old. To delete the existing DotNetNuke indexed content execute the following four lines, from the Host>SQL page […]
Value of type Integer cannot converted to Unit
For a DotNetNuke paging control associated with a datagrid, or viewgrid, I received the error: Value of type ‘Integer’ cannot converted to ‘System.Web.UI.WebControls.Unit’ I had configured the width of the paging cotnrol within the VB code , rather than within the html layout code of the .vb.ascx file. ctlPagingControl.Width = 600 Because the control parameter […]
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Could not Load File or Assembly ‘clientdependency.core’ or one of its Dependencies
Updating a DotNetNuke site from 7.0.0 to 6.2.4 I received the following error message: Could not load file or assembly ‘clientdependency.core’ or one of its dependencies. This assembly is built by a runtime newer than the currently loaded runtime and cannot be loaded. From version 7 DotNetNuke requires the use of .net Framework 4. Configure […]
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Force UK Date Format dd/mm/yyyy
To force the UK date format of dd/mm/yyyy By default DotNetNuke will use the US date format of mm/dd/yyyy. A change to the languages settings will force UK only formatting. With the UK language support added DotNetNuke will offer web pages rendered according to the settings of the browser. Unfortunately, not everyone sets their browser […]
Error Object Reference Not Set
Recently I have been suffering from the following error, associated with the DotNetNuke text editor: A critical error has occurred.Object reference not set to an instance of an object. I found that the error was apparent after uploading a new dll file to the bin directory or if the cache on the text editor had […]
