DNN 5.1.1 Released & Other Community News

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DotNetNuke 5.1.1 Released

Posted on Fri Jul 31, 2009 by Tom Kraak
In: DotNetNuke, DNN Friday, DNN News | 3 Comments

Earlier this week, DotNetNuke Corp released the first maintenance / stabilization release after declaring DNN 5 production-ready. For details on what bugs have been addressed, read Joe Brinkman’s official announcement.

Other noteworthy DNN news:

I finally got around to posting part 2 of the DNN SEO case study for Mitchel Seller’s IowaComputerGurus.com.
And speaking of Mitchel, he packaged his culumnative knowledge of DotNetNuke performance best practices into a handy PDF guide. Excellent paper.
Beyond the default forms authentication, DNN ships with LiveID and OpenID authentication providers. Joe Brinkman shows you how to create your own provider and Oliver Hine backs it up with a concrete example by writing a DNN authentication provider for Twitter.
Markus Pope doesn't take “no” for an answer and explores the use of recursion to find controls in the page hierarchy.
Paul Scarlett of Canada-based Tressleworks released IFrame64, a free module based on the IFrame project that “allows users to easily blur the parameters passed to other pages / documents / sites.”
Looking to ditch the DNN Menu / Solpart once and for all? Chad Voller reviews one alternative; the MarkIT XMenu skin object.
If you have enjoyed recent events like the Day of DNN and you live in the Missouri area, check out the DotNetNuke Sessions at the St. Louis Day of .NET.
Nina Meiers of Australia-based XD Design records a thorough,10 min video on Installing skins on DotNetNuke 4. Great intro for beginners.
Yoel Sommer is concerned about the ASP.NET viewstate’s impact on SEO and shows how to reduce the viewstate size in DNN 4.8 and up.
And finally, Will Strohl explores social networking on DNN and compares the 2 predominant module suites: SmartSocial and Active Social.