9/10/08 Meeting

Held at Robert Half Offices 18200 Von Karmen in Irvine , Ca. Suite 800
6 "newer" members attended

RHT generously provided sandwiches/cookies/drinks !!!

NOTE: The parking is expensive adjacent to the building
After hours - "Free Parking" is available in the Allergan building
on Michelson / Von Karmen. This is a "little walk" to the 8200 Building.

RoundTable Summary

We had a lively discussion and demo of DNN implementations.
A lot of DNN tips ....

Bruce D
Q. DNN Timeout using Dev Express control / callback
A. Suggest adding javascript settimeout to call a dummy page on the server to keep the session going.

Philip H.
Q. DNN 3.x - Devexpress Grid Support in Asp.Net 1.x ?
A. ....
Suggest Upgrade to DNN 4.x ( and all the re-testing )

Bruce D / Michael A.
Demo their DNN Website for Manufacturing Products / Request for  Quotes
 - approx. 300 users
 - One Custom Module approach:
 - heavy use of DevExpress Ajax controls
 - Extended DNN User Membership Attributes with a wrapper on UserInfo class
 Extended the DNN UserInfo class which "queries" the standard Membership
 data to add a separate query to the "extended attributes table"
 - based design concepts on Forums module
 
Philip and Brian -
Demo DNN Website Review Concepts - Custom E-Commerce Store
 - One Custom Module approach:
 - extensive use of XSLT to render HTML
 backend stored procedures use sql queries with "For XML" to
 convert Database data to XML for XSLT rendering.

DNN Architecture
 Discuss use of windows authentication using Active Directory ( DNN has a "plugin" for AD )
 Use of Active Directory shifts responsiblity for maintaining
 users / passwords to Corporate Security group and supports a
 "single signon" environment.

Henry V - Riverside Group had Tues Meeting Topic on
Virtualization 101 - Stephen Rose

use external USB HD 7200 RPM
using Virtual Server 2005

James B.

Q. DNN ECommerce ?

A.  consider: Catalook
http://www.dnnsoft.com/

??? software not that flexible for your business

 

Raffle a Camtasia License
Henry V.

Telerik Rad Controls
Michael A

TrainingSpot - sql / SSRS / Sharepoint
James B

LVS - Learn Visual Studio .Net
Brian D

Mandeep Singh Controls - meetmandeep@hotmail.com
Darcy M

1 DevExpress Controls - CodeRush / Refactor
Walter P

Book 1
Kenny J.

Book 2
Joe G.

 

 

 

Paul Chu's Notes;

Thanks to Michael and Darcy for an excellent DNN Roundtable discussion last night.

 

DNN RoundTable Meeting at Sponser Robert Half Offices in Cerritos, CA

Thanks to Janet Chung ( RHT ) for providing this great facility.

Michael Washington - DNN Core Team Member

 

using  Web Services with DNN
iweb.adefwebserver.com
iweb download module and install
iweb - now 500 members from 300 a few months ago

iweb Client Applications
install IwebExplorer - File / Manager Explorer by Ian
 allow faster uploading of docs etc
IwebConnector - User info by Michael
 create a User and Get a User
You can write you own client

iweb Source Code now Hosted  by M$ CodePlex website -  like SourceForge -  www.codeplex.com/iweb   download

Choosing a Client Source Control Application to work with CodePlex
Team Explorer - like TFS ( Team Foundation Server ) or SubVerson etc

Question on using a DNN Scheduler

 

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Michael Washington - new Silverlight content

dnnsilverlight.adefwebserver.com

Tutorial - How to create a Custom Silverlight Contorl

use xamldownloader object to  get  box.xaml ( control )
createfromXaml to render control dynamically

IIS Hosting Setup
 map xaml to ????

Demo: Car in 3D - SilverLightVR 360  Car
...dotnetnukehelp/mis/siverlightvr/default.htm
Jeff Perry - wrote program to alternate between 36 images 10degrees
 simulate rotating car
 ulead - program:  Cool 3D
 create a lot of images
 compress 10,000 images into a zip file
 downloaded to user Temporary Internet Files

Application:  Take a set of  Product images and show it rotating
 can also be done with Flash

adefwebserver site - demo code

 GetTrackingUsers

 Email Ajax
  deleting code shows a  inline delegate

Demo Silverlight 1.1 with Managed Code
 Alpha code ( not production )

NEW from Core Team
 xaml skin for DNN coming
 Core team blog: Phillip Beadle Awesome
 
Q. extend Michael's Silverlight  BOX example  to a XAML menu

Q. How to generate the pictures from a side / front / back view
 Cool 3D

3rd Party Xaml Controls ?
 Xceed Grid, Telerik, etc are implemented with SilverLight 1.1
 and not SL 1.0 using Javascript

 

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Darcy Mayer - President, docVerify.com

Demo on  www.docVerify.com
BtoC portal - docVerify.com  launched 3 weeks ago

A Enterprise level Website based on DNN infrastructure but highly customized the UI.
 Custom Menu Module
 Custom DashBoard Module
 Custom Document Module
 Using Ajax / Update Panel / Ajax Toolkit
 Telerik Controls

Application:
Electronic Document Mgmt -   no tampering -  for:
 Lawyers
 Real Estate Board

Originally replaced solpartmenu with transMenu from snowCovered

hired Graphics Artist - to dummy down original design

 Added Captcha

 ??? Token
Ajax ToolKit Slick Tricks
secrets of using ModalDialog with DNN

"Electronic Signature"
instead of notarizing it
   document is Locked
      Approved document - work with Verisign
  ??? Cardspace ???

use Biometrics  to authenticate
 fingerprint
 Eye scan

changed dnn default DOCTYPE  quirks ???  Darcy to provide DOCTYPE info
to use Ajax ToolKit controls such as the: Accordion
 NOTE: all skins and classes  in html
 match by Case Sensitive

+ using Telerik Upload Control
 Has nice Progress Window

+ Security
Performance Tip: don't use SSL on the webserver IIS
instead on Load Balancer can do the SSL ( has Certificates )
 VIP virtual IP
 listen on ip

 Firewall outside IPs
  does a NAT to 192 virtual IP

 VIP has web server pool
  10.10.x.x
 on Port 80 and Port 443

need to be SOX compliant
  you need another SSL decrypter

SSL slowed down the web server site performance considerable

Should invest in Load Balancer - like Zeus  $40K license
 F5 - Ebay for $200 ( h/w load balancer )
 NO CISCO, RADWARE

Documents are uniquely identified with Bar Codes
Bar Code PDF 417
 last 2 generations
and Bar Code 39

FingerPrint - hash algorithm ( DNA ) of the document
 any change would be detected
 BUT NOT hack proof
 View Time Stamp Certificate
  can be cracked

Future: deploy to Google Documents too

Intrusion Detection System
 Network ICE -  IDS detection  
 Black Ice

DNN Design
skin has embedded Menu and Dashboard objects ( like a masterPage )
Uses querystring to communicate between modules
 learn from Google and Yahoo to see how they do it

Question on
Ajax ToolKit popup dialog
position is off
 doctype

div tags - must have position:absolute
 
Ajax CALENDAR fix on Michael's site

??? Technical Issue with a Upload Button in a GridView in a Update Panel on the Documents GridView
Michaels site:
 Ajax Example with DNN

 call  RaisePostBack ( .... )
 to tell DNN to PostBack on the Upload Icon regardless of Update Panel

3 Main Features used by Darcy
 admin
 skinnng engine
 3rd party modules

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Question on a DNN Shopping Cart
 ??? Catalook on SnowCovered