Creating Custom Modules

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Have you ever wondered how to create a cutom module with custom Web controls in VB.NET for your portal? This article gives you the details. It is excerpted from chapter seven of the book Building Websites with VB.NET and DotNetNuke 3.0, written by Daniel N. Egan (PACKT Publishing, 2005; ISBN: 1904811272).

Creating Custom Modules

In this chapter, we are going to walk you through creating a custom module for the CoffeeConnections portal. A custom module can consist of one or more custom web controls. The areas we will cover are:

• Creating a private assembly project to build and debug your module

• Creating View and Edit controls

• Adding additional options to the module settings page
  
• Implementing the IActionable, ISearchable, and IPortable interfaces
  
• Using the Dual List Control

• Creating a SQLDataProvider

• Packaging your module

• Uploading your module

Coffee Shop Listing Module Overview

One of the main attractions for the CoffeeConnections portal is that users will be able to search, by zip code, for coffee shops in their area. After searching, the users will be presented with the shops in their area. To allow the focus of this chapter to be on module development, we will present a simplified version of this control. We will not spend time on the ASP.NET controls used or validation of these controls, instead we will focus only on what is necessary to create your own custom modules.

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