What’s next for BlankModule? and when can you expect it?
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Loading ...I’ve received a couple of mails from people asking what’s next for BlankModule, and when they can expect it.
The situation and the plans currently are to finish Web Deployment Project for the solution (actually the project is already done, it can build all the projects in solution, it can deploy their outputs to central dnn bin, it can zip your module and create both source and release versions of it, etc… What I am missing is some small details like will I make it as a separate targets file which you can include in your WDP or just make a done WDP, also decide about the output paths for zipped files and such… mostly it’s fine tuning, but it needs to be done).
After I finish that I will publish it as an addition to the tutorial (I expect to have it done next week) and proceed to the Visual Studio templates. I’ve found 2 great possible directions for the templates - one is to develop a wizard for the templates and make something that I call “smart” templates that you can configure to your liking at run-time, the other would be to employ GAT - which sounds like a great idea, but I still need to find out lots about it - so obviously my learning curve here is allot bigger. Depending on the direction I decide to follow I will know a little better when that part will be made public.
I’ve decided 2 very firm things for this project:
1. I will release something when it’s done, and before releasing it try to tweak it as much as possible to my liking (I am a very “details” kind of guy - I like everything to be as good as possible)
2. I will not promise you much - what I have promised I will do (although my passion for this has already driven me to talk to few people about possible future ideas)
so again, stay tuned… you will be the first to know when something is released.
Cool! I am using this now and it seems to be working well! I have not yet packaged up a module but I assume it will be almost identical to the 2003 version.
I look forward to any enhancements but I am enjoying the speed of dev. One thing though - ironically is that I need to debug the core DNN project so I will need to add this temporarily
June 28th, 2006 at 2:33 pmThe package should be the same, the logic of packaging atually doesn’t have anything to do with the development enviroment - only a better thing here is that you have *neat* dlls
As for debugging dnn, if you need to do it from your code (e.g. you want to debug CBO which is called from your code) it’s enough to have dnn built in debug mode, Visual Studio will step into DNN project code while debugging even if it’s not loaded in the current solution.
June 29th, 2006 at 6:29 am