Creating a Custom MojoPortal Solution: Part 2 – The Source Code Way

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 July 2011 09:37 Written by Carole Bennett Monday, 11 July 2011 12:00

Hi! Carole Bennett again, with Part 2 of “Creating a Custom MojoPortal Solution”. Today, we’ll talk about one of the biggest reasons for using a source code installation of MojoPortal – the ability to add custom code and features.

I won’t re-hash Joe Audette’s “Building a Guestbook” video series that gives you a step-by-step tutorial on building a custom app, though I’m happy to answer questions regarding anything I have covered today. Instead, I’ll show you what you can do after you have built a custom module.

Connecting to MSSQL Using Classic ASP: Compatibility Issues and Solutions

Last Updated on Saturday, 2 July 2011 02:56 Written by Yiannis Androulakis Friday, 1 July 2011 12:34

I was recently notified that my site was taking up too many resources and that I had to upgrade my account. I agreed to move from a PersonalClass to BusinessClass plan and my new account was quickly set up by Arvixe, along with the content and the vast majority of my configurations.

One of my planned changes was to modify the connection string I was using. I was directed to this article with 2 options:

1. “Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data Source=myServerAddress;UID=myUsername; PWD=myPassword; database=myDataBase;”
2. “Driver={SQL Server Native Client 10.0};Server=myServerAddress;Database=myDataBase;Uid=myUsername;Pwd=myPassword;”

Creating a Custom MojoPortal Solution: Part 1, Getting Started

Last Updated on Sunday, 10 July 2011 11:49 Written by Carole Bennett Tuesday, 28 June 2011 09:28

Hello! I’m Carole Bennett, one of the MojoPortal Community Liasons for Arvixe.  Ian McIntosh has been doing a great job of showing you how to get an “out of the box” MojoPortal installation configured, so that you can explore all the great built-in features it has to offer.  Since he’s working that area, I’m going to start by going over how to set up a custom MojoPortal solution, suitable for custom development.

In today’s post, we’ll cover downloading source code, setting up a Visual Studio project environment, a MSSQL database, and how to set up the publish profile that will generate the actual website you’ll install on a live server.