CODEWITHSUNDEEP
dotnetnuke
bflemi3
bflemi3

Reputation: 6790

How to create a DotNetNuke skin in Visual Studio

I'm looking for tutorials on how to develop a skin for dnn 7+ using visual studio 2012. The only thing google is finding for me is paid tutorials. Can anyone reference a free tut or two that walks through the process of creating a skin for dnn 7+ using Visual Studio?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1114

Answers (1)

Chris Hammond
Chris Hammond

Reputation: 8943

Unfortunately there aren't many/any available. I have it on my list of things to do, but that list is rather long these days.

Here's how I would start.

1) Download the SOURCE package of my free MultiFunction skin https://multifunction.codeplex.com/

2) Install the SOURCE package via the HOST/Extensions page of your DNN development environment.

3) Open up the SLN file in /portals/_default/skins/multifunction

4) Make changes.

5) Build in RELEASE mode to get a new ZIP file created (I think it goes into /packages in that skins/multifunction folder, though I Might have updated to use /install instead).

FYI: Every time you Build in debug mode, the project will copy the files in the Containers folder to /portals/_default/containers/multifunction

Upvotes: 1

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