VS.NET

Now you can open the newly installed DotNetNuke solution in VS.NET by double clicking the solution file Training.sln. You can also load the solution from the file menu, Open Solution dialog (just make sure you open the solution file (.sln) and not the DotNetNuke project (.vbproj).

When you first open this solution you should see that in contains for projects:

• DotNetNuke. This is the main DotNetNuke project
• Provider.AccessDataProvider. Data access provider for Microsoft Access database
• Provider.SqlDataProvider. Data access provider for Microsoft SQLServer
• YourCompanyName.Survey. This is the project for the Survey module.

Since I don't use Access nor the Survey module, the first thing I do is remove these projects from the current solution. It only removes the projects from the solution, not from the disk. If you ever need them, you'll always be able to add again by choosing Add -> Existing Project from the solution node. And now, just to make sure all is working try to rebuild the solution. You should get something like this:

------ Rebuild All started: Project: DotNetNuke, Configuration: Debug .NET ------ Preparing resources... Updating references... Performing main compilation... C:\DNNWeb\Training\DesktopModules\XML\XmlModule.ascx.vb(111) : ... Building satellite assemblies... ------ Rebuild All started: Project: Provider.SqlDataProvider, Configuration: Debug .NET ------ Preparing resources... Updating references... Performing main compilation... C:\DNNWeb\Training\DesktopModules\XML\XmlModule.ascx.vb(111) : ... Building satellite assemblies... ---------------------- Done ---------------------- Rebuild All: 2 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped