DNN Blogs

DNN 10 Preview - In this Southern Fried DNN User Group meeting, we'll take a sneak peek at DNN 10! In the meetup you'll hear from DNN contributors and strategy leaders Mitchel Sellers, Brian Dukes, David Poindexter, Daniel Valadas, and Peter Donker.

Join the party as the Southern Fried DNN User Group held their year-end party and meeting, focusing on DNN topics and community updates. We finish with a DNN-themed game show, Family Feud style, involving two teams: 10 Pound Gorilla and Southern Fried.

November SoFri DNN MeetUp: DNN Things We Are Thankful For. Come and hang out with us and talk about all the wonderful DNN things for which we are thankful! #positivevibes #thanksgiving

DNN comes with a little-known magic pill C# upgrade buried away in Available Extensions. If your DNN efforts often have you coding in C#, you may have noticed that the C# you use by default in DNN doesn't have some of the common, modern features available. Find out how CodeDOM 3.6 can get your C# language version from v5.x to v7.3. This gives you over 20 new language features that bring a lot of productivity improvements and expressiveness to the language, making C# code more concise and readable. This month we'll demo installing this extension. Then, we'll show off some favorites...

This month, we'll be recapping DNN Summit 2022 and then we'll take some time to highlight a few exciting community projects. Trust us, they are worth knowing about and getting involved with!

Have you ever wanted to get data from a module and display it in ways that don't exist? Here I will show you one way that I have used code (tables, classes, and methods) from one module to create a somewhat different module view than envisioned by its developers. I will talk about (and maybe even demonstrate) ways that this approach can be extended to other modules.

In this session, Aaron introduces you to a radical new way of developing User Interfaces so you too can create the most beautifully designed, the most incredibly performant, the most easily maintainable, flexible, powerful, and enjoyable-to-build websites you can using Tailwind CSS. In Jeremy's 2sxc focused session, he shows what you can really do after you've learned enough about 2sxc to build truly useful Structured Content apps.

September 2021's Southern Fried User Group Meeting - Timo Breumelhof shows some interesting use cases to demonstrate ways you can (mis)use Open Content. Jay Mathis talks about structured content and the DNN community project for DNN-core structured content

August 2021's Southern Fried User Group Meeting - Mitchel Sellers discusses the recent technology changes, trends that we see in the community, and future items for consideration as we look at the future of DNN. Nik Kalyani provides context for how your current DNN skills map to the highly lucrative Web3 arena.

July 2021's Southern Fried User Group Meeting - David Poindexter talks about bringing overall strategic direction for the DNN Platform project and coordination between all leadership teams. Daniel Valadas presents a new minimal theme that uses vanilla CSS and JavaScript without any frameworks (like Bootstrap) or libraries