By host on Sunday, November 16, 2008 1:49 PM

No sure why, but this release of SQLGridSelectedView has taken a while to release. 

This version is primarily a stabilization release.  While the core has been working well, some of the lesser used portions of the module have had issues.  Especially the templating.  I have spent time working on this and correcting and updating several little issue under the surface.

One of the big issues as the size of the Setting form.   I could easily be over 500k in size and that is too much.  I have revised the setting form to reduce the size by not populating the various filters unless there are used.  So, for example, if you do not use the Condition filter, then no setting information will be sent.  If you want to add the Conditions, then a new "Add" button exists for all the filters when not present.  The button is not shown if the filter is used.

I hope to address this issue when developing a version for the new DNN V5.  aka Cambrian.  Now that  RC2 is available I will start playing with what I can...

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By host on Sunday, November 16, 2008 12:53 PM

I recently attended Openforce 08 in Las Vegas ( aka Lost Wages?)  and was very happy I went.

I also attended OpenForce 07 and this year was much better from a DotNetNuke perspective.  The overall size of DevConnections was smaller --- this has more to do with the recent PDC and current economy than the quality of the presentations --  but it seem to me that the DotNetNuke attendance was larger - almost double !!

The Key Note given by Shawn was packed --- several others were there and have blogged about the number in attendance ... standing room only.   The following picture as taken by Micheal Washington at the Key Note -- I added the circle to point out I was there....



My primary reason for attending is to learn about DNN 5 and to re-charge the DNN interest within me, I also found talking to the community was great too.  The number of DNN-related vendors at the conference...

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