In general, I'm a great fun of DotNetNuke, the free, Open Source Framework for creating web portals. It is very powerful and easy to use. However it is full of bugs! Yes, it is.
Most probably this is because the DNN team releases a new version once every couple of months! No to mention the intermediate releases of specific modules. You don't have to take my word for it. See the downloads page of the project. From January of 2007 there have been 5 releases! That is one release every 37 days!
Currently, in my web site, I'm using version 4.5.1. I had several problems before that and I spend lot's of hours trying to figure out what to do. There where times that I was completely helpless. I was thinking of throwing everything away and republishing my web site using a different framework. Here is the list of my posts in the dotnetnuke forums. Finally I installed version 4.5.1, I spent a couple of days playing with the configuration it seemed that I was there!
For months my web site was doing fine! And of course I decided not to upgrade DNN to any new version, no matter what! And suddenly!!! I click on 'Add blog entry' to write something in my blog and I get a 'DotNetNuke. Services. Exceptions. ModuleLoadException: The server tag is not well formed' error! What was it? A patch recently released by Microsoft revealed a bug of DNN. There was an invalid character in EditEntry.ascx file of blog module. Here is more by DNN team member Antonio Chagoury.
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