Assorted Frustrations

1)       Download the latest version. it will be a zip file. 2)       Extract it to a folder. 3)       Now you need to make backups of files that will be overwritten by the DNN upgrade.   If there are a important changes you will have to merge them. a.       Files that were customized. b.       Ex: Login ascx page in the DesktopModules/Authentication/DNN folder which I customized it so that the page would fit on mobile devices. 4)       The upgrade may influence the look of the page with the skin.   You may have to modify the skin, Eg:Powerful.   Find that in the Portals/default/Powerful/skin.ascx folder.   5)       Make a backup of the database, and a copy of the existing website folder on the website, in case it screws up.   We have experienced complete corruption of the install before so this step is important. a.       If you need to restore, take the DNN db offline/disconnect all users before restoring otherwise it will not work.   Then bring it back online.

Could not restore the db due to the database being in use.  Found the following script worked on sql server 2008 when others failed. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11620/how-do-you-kill-all-current-connections-to-a-sql-server-2005-database USE master GO SET NOCOUNT ON DECLARE @DBName varchar(50) DECLARE @spidstr varchar(8000) DECLARE @ConnKilled smallint SET @ConnKilled=0 SET @spidstr = '' Set @DBName = 'dbnamer' IF db_id(@DBName) < 4 BEGIN PRINT 'Connections to system databases cannot be killed' RETURN END SELECT @spidstr=coalesce(@spidstr,',' )+'kill '+convert(varchar, spid)+ '; ' FROM master..sysprocesses WHERE dbid=db_id(@DBName) IF LEN(@spidstr) > 0 BEGIN EXEC(@spidstr) SELECT @ConnKilled = COUNT(1) FROM master..sysprocesses WHERE dbid=db_id(@DBName) END

To modify the login page as an admin you can access it via Page Management page. Once you find the login page, right click and click "View Page".  I needed to add a custom page container, and this worked.

Right click in project, TortoiseSVN->Check For modifications -> click "unversioned" for all files that are not in project. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/613485/how-can-i-get-tortoisesvn-to-get-a-list-of-files-that-are-not-in-the-repository

If you wish to change the width for when the menu changes from the side Megamenu to the Standard menu you must modify the media queries in the skin.css file in the root of the skin folder.

flaticon.com Can download many at once. Can select a size for all of them. Can select a file type.

Could not update, could not commit.  Clean did not work at any level either.   Below were some of the things I tried.  Finally deleting the whole project folder and checking out the entire project again fixed the problem. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10128201/subversion-stuck-due-to-previous-operation-has-not-finished

When in Page Management I encountered a situation where one page could not be renamed to a specific page name.  The reason behind it is because there is probably another page with the same name.  In my case I had to clear out the Recycle Bin in order to name the page to a certain name.