Although Ventrian NewsArticles is still a widely used module in the DNN ecosystem, it has no development and support anymore. This has been the case for quite some time already, and because of the int...

At the beginning of 2021, 40Fingers contributed a few pull requests for the CKEditorProvider project in DNN. The first (PR #4383) updates the CKEditor used by DNN to version 4.15.1. But the other is p...

As explained in this video you can add an (page) item to the DNN personabar. This can be helpful for admins to do certain tasks. Unfortunately, removing or renaming items needs to go throug...

Over the last couple of years one of the major complaints of the DNN Community was that the dnnsoftware website was mainly targeted at promoting the commercial version of DNN. This summer a new commun...

From our list of things that are not in DNN, but would come in handy every now and then if they where.... Changing the default language of a portal. With Content localization switch on, that is. At 4...

Some time ago, Ventrian published their SimpleGallery module as open source. Unfortunately, it was not working anymore on DNN9.2 and up. Since the module is still used quite a lot, 40Fingers stepped u...

Ventrian NewsArticles is still a very widely used News Articles module. Major drawback, however, is that is is not actively maintained anymore. The module has been published as open source by Ventrian...

Following our presentation on DNN-Connect 2018 in Limerick, Ireland, we've published the module now on GitHub and our website. We hope you will be able to put the module to good use and are looki...

As Codeplex is shutting down (read-only from November 27), we moved our most important free/open source #dnncms extensions from Codeplex to our website. From now on you can download them from www.40fi...

Nota bene: er is ook een Nederlandstalige versie van deze blogpost. Update: the crossposted version of this post on DotNetNuke.com contains some interesting comments. Over the past few mon...

DotNetNuke normally sends out email on numerous occasions. In your development environment you mostly don't have an email server set up so these emails are not really sent. In some cases I do need to ...

Note: since there’s quite a lot of content on Visual Studio LightSwitch available in English on the web already, I decided to publish this series in Dutch. Note 2: This is a crosspost from my personal...

Only a few days left before DevDays11 will start in The Netherlands, and while a large part of my schedule is fixed already I decided to run through the agenda and pick a few sessions anyway. My main ...

Today I tried to upgrade my DNN Skin Development installation from 5.3.1 to 5.6.0 I got a SQL provider error on the 5.4.0 script I did not understand at first. I got this error in 05.04.00.l...

Since about a month I'm having issues on my development machine with my local DotNetNuke installations. Sometimes pages load so slow in the browser, I get a timeout or the page only loads only half. M...

Update october 4th, 2010: The draw has been won by Armand Datema. Congratulations! Thanks to all other testers. Want to make an easy €100? We need your help testing an auction module by pretending a r...

I often get data from clients in Excel or XML format, which I have to convert to some kind of XML like format. Mostly this is a one time conversion for which a custom solution is not viable....

These days there are ample opportunities to spice up one’s website with so-called Web 2.0 features by means of javascript functions. We have realized it on this website using jQuery library. jQuery is...