Yes. DNN Platform is a free, open-source CMS under the MIT License.

What is the tech stack for DNN?

DNN runs on ASP.NET (.NET Framework 4.8+) with Microsoft SQL Server (2017+ or Azure SQL).

DNN Platform is community-led and a member project of the .NET Foundation.

What’s the difference between DNN and Evoq?

DNN Platform is the open-source core that's been wildly popular and adopted for over 20 years. Evoq is a commercial offering maintained by DNN Software (IgniteTech) that builds on DNN.

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Full application source code Started By Dillip Hi, I am new to DNN Platform. I downloaded the Install package and deployed the same in my local IIS server successfully. But being a Developer, I am interested in the DNN Platform web application framework source code i.e. the Full application source code. Can anybody help me in understanding and run the full application source code. Any links for understanding documents will also help. Thanks Dillip Bhaskar	6	2505	2	10/1/2020 9:21 AM by Dillip
Vocabularies, Merge Started By StSaeed Hello, I'm new (and actually I know just a few things about the module) and I'm using 'Toxonomy DNN' to create some vocabularies for my website. I have a problem, which I'm gonna discuss in the following two questions on one topic: First question: I have two huge vocabularies (in DNN blog categories), which I need to merge them together and create a bigger vocabulary from them; to have just one vocabulary consisting of the contents of both initial vocabularies. Is there an 'easy to do' wa...	1	1802	2	9/8/2020 7:22 AM by StSaeed
DNN Structured Content Started By preid Hello, We're using the free DNN platform, and trying to determine if there are any out of the box solutions for structured content. It seems everything I've found so far either refers to the paid Evoq platform (Liquid Content), or other add-ons (2sxc, OpenContent). What we'd like to do, for example, is create a page type with pre-defined fields that an editor can fill out for patient case studies, and then have a page that loops over all of those stories to display them on the site. We'...	6	2837	3	8/25/2020 10:34 AM by preid
URL cutomization Started By Zhorzhik Hi there, I have a problem with my website URLs and will be thankful if anyone could help me։) My website's content is non-english; Armenian. Initially, I set Armenian names and titles for pages, so my nav-menu and URL generated form page nameso. But as the language is Armenian, when I copy my URLs, these are being pasted with long s. So, I think that there are 2 solutions: Change some settings that my Armenian URLs work normal, without s after copy/paste I can change my URLs to En...	1	1802	0	9/11/2020 12:57 PM by Zhorzhik
Multiple controls with the same ID Started By Realming_Grape Hi. I am New to DNN. We have been trying to resolve an error on our site. ive spend many hours trying to find a solution yet unable to. recently the website was jeopardized so we had to migrate the website. since then, we are receiving error Multiple controls with the same ID '661_HtmlModule' were found. FindControl requires that controls have unique IDs. InnerStackTrace: at System.Web.UI.Control.FillNamedControlsTable(Control namingContainer, ControlCollection controls) at ...	4	2311	1	8/5/2020 5:03 PM by Realming_Grape
message app Started By Diaan We have a charity DNN site with chatrooms is it possible for the chatrooms to function more like a stand alone app like messenger does for Facebook Really sorry I am seriously not tech savvy (husband does the site) but we seem to be unable to find anything that is safe for adults and minors to use and many want to move away from FB Many thanks for your time to read and hope somebody will be able to help wishing you all a great day Diana	2	1909	1	8/5/2020 5:17 AM by Diaan
Getting build error on sample MVC DAL module. Started By Kiran Jadhav Hi, I am new to DNN Community. I am trying to create a sample MVC DAL module, but getting build error. I am refering this demo, https://www.youtube.com/w...v=gUZNPU7-vIc&t=355s (Note: Getting error at 04:37 min, as per this video) I have installed DNN 9 template from below link for Visual Studio 2015. https://github.com/ChrisH...leases/tag/v08.00.00 I am trying to create the module at 'C:\website\dnndev.me\DesktopModules\MVC' location, my DNN website setup on IIS is working. Thank...	2	2128	1	8/1/2020 12:09 PM by Kiran Jadhav
Change Username Label in login screen Started By Varun I want to change Username label to Username/Email on my login screen. I tried to change few settings in some .resx files and nothing seem to work. We are using DNN 9.2.2. Please let me know how to achieve this. Thank You.	2	1878	1	7/27/2020 1:45 PM by Varun
Does the DNN Sales Dept exist? Started By John Smith My team has downloaded the demo version of DNN and we like the product. My company is ready to make a purchase. I've used the website contact form several times and emailed 'salesdnnsoftware.com' with zero response. The Facebook and Twitter feeds are stale. Does anyone have a phone number or email to someone in Sales that I could talk to I shouldn't have to beg a company to purchase their product.	1	1854	2	7/16/2020 10:27 AM by John Smith
Browser Freezes When Accessing Menu Items Started By Deleted User Some users click a menu item on the Portal and the browser freezes, the cursor switches to a finger point icon and they cannot navigate to anywhere on the page. They need to close the browser to exit the page. I tried it and it happened to me too. How can I resolve this	2	3509	1	6/28/2020 3:23 AM by Deleted User

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