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Our meeting on August 20th at ATT is cancelled. We will resume our meetings starting in September.

We welcomed back Antonio Chagoury from his many travels on July 16th. He gave an informative presentation on configuring DotNetNuke's search indexing. Also, our own Jonathan Sheely gave a review of Red-Gate software.

We are very excited to announce that Red Gate has chosen to sponsor the Capital DotNetNuke User Group (CapitalDug.org) as a Gold Sponsor!

JetBrains, maker of Resharper, and other development tools, is now a product sponsor for the Capital DotNetNuke User Group. We will be giving away a Resharper license at our next meeting.

Chris Hammond (a DNN Core Team member) gave an excellent presentation on developing modules in DotNetNuke on Wednesday, 21 May at the ATT offices in Tysons Corner.

Update: New content added on 4/9/2009. Visual Studio Solution files and video of the last steps of the presentation that were not covered live.

Check out the prerecorded video of the 1/21/09 meeting on using jQuery and DotNetNuke

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1079583

The Provider Model is a design pattern introduced in .net to provide a simple way to extend API functionality. DotNetNuke uses this architecture to allow some of its core functionality to be replaced without modifying core code. In this session Antonio Chagoury will give you a high-level overview of the core Membership Provider (ASPNet Membership) and demonstrate how to build and configure your own custom provider.

BONUS: Antonio will be giving a recap of events at OpenForce '08, so be sure you come and find out what all the new buzz is about!

Location: 1900 Gallows Rd, Vienna, VA 22182
Time: 7:00PM - 9:00PM 

There are a number of form modules on the market that work with DotNetNuke, each with their own strengths and weaknesses depending on what you need to get done with them: general information gathering, work flow management, payments processing, and even integration with other systems.

Some are oriented more toward being configured by someone with a technical aptitude, while others can be set up and managed by non-technical users.  We'll evaluate at least four different form modules (XMod, Dynamic Forms, Enterprise Forms, and Form Master) and discuss what kind of uses each one might be best suited for as well as some tips and tricks for getting the most out of them.
 

About the Speaker:
Chris Busse is a Managing Partner at MemberPath, LLC in Richmond, VA where he spends his time developing highly customized DotNetNuke sites for membership associations and other nonprofit organizations, as well as consulting with them on a number of other programs such as Raiser's Edge, iMIS, and Avectra.