Vashon Software

While the good folks making DotNetNuke my favorite web application framework have been busy improving the product, like most others, their documentation has languished far behind for several versions. While a new effort strives to remedy this oft-discussed situation, it reportedly faces "technical issues".

In the meantime, here are some resources to consider for (non-development) DotNetNuke documentation:

• Use Google to search the DotNetNuke site - and especially their forums. Unless you are the first, you'll likely find a discussion on issues and problems there. The forums are amazingly active, so even if you are the first to report it, suggested solutions should arrive quickly. (This isn't great for longer, more polished How-To instruction however. For that see the following links.)
• Great guides (and other resources) for DotNetNuke are available in the official documentation section here.
• One can finally build a good library of books related to DotNetNuke. Some are old, but most are excellent sources of fairly current advice - that have been edited and thoughtfully presented and fully documented.
• Search the DotNetNuke Gemini Support site which uses a somewhat out-of-date and to be updated tool known as Gemini. This tracks all their bugs and even their roadmap for features, as well as outstanding issues.
• Oliver Hine has published projects.windoh.com/wiki/dnn, a wiki that others are encouraged to add to. This may become a useful source of information, but may suffer the same fate as some of the other non-official collections of info at DNNCreative (not free however), DnnResources.com, Deitel.com, CFSarasota.org, WWWCoder.com, PowerDNN, and many others.