Someone on the forums had a need to have a Business Directory and a Classifieds module on his website. Maybe you to has such a need, anyway I decided to suggest some options so here it is:

Some input on the Business Directory / Classifieds on DNN:

The DNN Core Repository has a "Business Card" skin you can use when creating a business directory. I have used it for such a directory of businesses in a town in south america here:

http://www.santacruzperu.com/Contacts/HuarazDirectory/tabid/62/Default.aspx

The Repository module is very flexible with templating, customizable user upload/updates, ratings, comments etc. it also has a companion dashboard module with various designs (to summarize / show lastest, I use one on the homepage). I also use this module on the "DotNetnuke Websites Directory" th ...

Core news:

The 9th of february DotNetNuke membership passed 250.000 persons!

That is a quarter of a million people, making the future of DotNetNuke ever more secure and each adding their needs and know-how to the DotNetNuke mix.

The Core Repository module version 3.1.8 was released about a week ago and we are already using it on our DNN Websites Directory on this website.
A great new version which made it possible to customized the dialog for adding a website and also to view custom attributes for each entry in the directory.
Localization is also possible even for templated labels and the templating system is excellent. There is a bug: when changing the sort order and selecting an item to rate or visit the module selects the wrong item. I hope this will be fixed in the "mars release" even though they are mostly working on documentation in this release.

A great thank you from us at FaktNet to ...

A lot of people are waiting to check out the new DotNetNuke Store Module, and a blog post led us to believe it was on the way, but alas not yet!

From the Project homepage at DotNetNuke:

"The DNN Store out of the box allows you to sell products using either Authorize.Net or PayPal. 

Features include categories, products (list and details), mini cart (with integrated controls), full shopping cart (including multiple ship/bill to addresses/recipients), reviews (including a review admin for approving reviews), order history (customer and admin viewable), and provider based gateways."

The Repository Project is working on what they are calling a January version. Features I am really looking forward to in this version is:

Customize of upload dialog. Remove some field if not used and be able to force attributes single choice (ideally mix/match on attributtes but not this version).

FaktNet has today released an article on the DotNetNuke Blog module. The article is the first in a series of introduction articles on DNN modules from FaktNet - DotNetNuke in Norway. The list of articles planned for the series includes:

• DotNetNuke Blog
• smcculloch SimpleGallery
• DotNetNuke Repository
• smcculloch NewsArticles
• Orizonti NukeFeeds
• Orizonti MediaGallery
• DotNetNuke Forum
• Bizmodules SiteAnalyzer
• Sigmapro Draconis
• PortalStore

The aim of the articles is to explain how to setup the modules, provide some links and resources and hopefully be a useful resource for the community. Click here to read the introduction to the Blog module.

One of the more exotic and advanced features of Log4net is lossy logging.

Actually the idea behind it is simp ...

Finally Log4Net Dashboard is up and running on ASP.NET 2.0!

I did come across a couple of problem ...

VisualStudio2005 and SqlServer 2005 is up and running. Side bye side with Visual Studio 2003 and SqlServer 2000, and it all seams to be working well.

I did have to uninstall SqlServer2005 and the Sql Express