Lets begin to set up our project. As told before in part 1 of this blog series, we will begin with a plain vanilla class library project in Visual Studio. So there is no need to install some module templates and use them. For learning purposes its the best to do this all manually. If you really understand all needed steps you can use these later but for now we'll stick with this.

This blog series should set you in the position to start DNN module development with Angular 1 even if you haven't done a module for DNN yet. So we will start with an empty project in Visual studio and build it up step by step. I plan to guide you through all these steps. But beware, this is no Angular course! I will not explain all the stuff that is involved in full detail because that would fill a book and is way too much for a blog like this, but where possible I'll provide you some links with further information to the corresponding topic. First we will start with a DNN 7 style Angular module using standard View.ascx that is able to run in DNN 7 and later we will convert this to a SPA module type for DNN 8.

Blogging with Windows Live Writer is often a complicated thing. Like with every HTML editor you need to have good knowledge of the HTML language. If you are not careful, you overwrite the default fonts, font width, colors and other styles. See how easy blogging is with Markdown and the new Markdown editor by Rick Strahl

One thing I liked most in former Joomla times was the possibilty to create global tokens that could be used anywhere in a Post / Article. Think of an "add to cart" token that you can place in a blog post that expands to a button that adds a predefined product to your cart!  See how this could be done in DNN!

Recently I started a pull request for the dnn core. It is a replacement and enhancement to the part of dnn that generates the profile images. The new imagehandler is based on an old Microsoft codeplex project and is enhanced by me in the last years. See what it is all about and tell me your opinion if it should go to the core or not!