How many times have you heard people complain about storing their SQL credentials in plain text. This session will show how to encrypt sections of your web.config file both from the command line and programmatically. After this session, you will have the knowledge to encrypt your data connection strings for a DotNetNuke website in a manner that will involve no core changes and be transparent to both DotNetNuke and any third party modules that use the configuration namespace to access the information in your web.config file.

Speaker: Darrell Hardy

Now that you have downloaded DotNetNuke® how are you going to use it for your application. Where do you start? Where do you go for help? This session will have several experienced DotNetNuke® users share their stories on how they got experience at using this powerful open source portal application. Members from the Orlando DotNetNuke® User group will be at this session to help you be successful at using DotNetNuke®.

Speaker: Brian Scarbeau

Write less code by using tab module, module, site and installation-level settings. DotNetNuke has a key-value storage that you can leverage to store data for which you would normally need to create a custom solution. We will explore the difference between each of these setting types, the limitations and workarounds, and participants will get access to free code that enables them to circumvent the 2000 character limit in the settings storage, without modifying the core.

Speaker: Raul Rodila

DotNetNuke 5.0 gives skin designers some new tools and techniques for creating contemporary, flexible and interactive skins. In this session you will learn about the newest client and server-side skin enhancements in DotNetNuke 5.0, especially client-side skin widgets and CSS-based design.

Speaker: Nik Kalyani

Many people are using DNN because of its excellent, built-in functionality as a Content Management System (CMS), and because it is Open Source. However many users don’t understand how to utilize the many of the simple built-in features and functions of DNN to their fullest. This session is dedicated to users who wish to become more proficient in their every-day use of the framework.    During this session, we'll actually build a small, professional website, while implementing some of DNN's functions that you will find extremely valuable and use over and over in your own DNN website implementations. The beneficial information you will learn during this session will allow you to implement your own DNN website solutions more efficiently and profitably than ever before.

Speaker: Tracy Wittenkeller