Will Morgenweck and Joe Brinkman provide information on where things are headed with DNN Platform and our Evoq producs. This presentation also includes a look at what's in store with DNN Platform 8.

1. DNN for Developers: How to Build and Extend
Applications on DNN
Joe Brinkman
Co-Founder
VP, Technology & Community Relations
@jbrinkman
Will Morgenweck
VP, Product Management
@wmorgenweck

2. What does a DNN version number mean?

3. What does a DNN version number mean?
07.04.01
Major Minor Revision

4. What About Evoq?
DNN Platform 7.4.0
Evoq 8.0.0

5. Next Release – May 26, 2015
DNN Platform 7.4.1
Evoq 8.1.0

6. Next Maintenance Release – July 2015
DNN Platform 7.4.2
Evoq 8.1.1

7. Next Major Release – September 2015
DNN Platform 8.0.0
Evoq 8.2.0

8. DNN 8 – A More Layered Architecture

9. Building Modern Applications with DNN

10. Platform Evolution
DNN 6.0 – June 2011
jQuery & jQuery UI
New Form Patterns & Client Side Controls

11. Platform Evolution
DNN 6.0 – June 2011
jQuery & jQuery UI
New Form Patterns & Client Side Controls
DNN 6.2 – May 2012
Knockout.js & Service Framework MVC
Single Page Apps: Message Center & Member Directory

12. Platform Evolution
DNN 6.0 – June 2011
jQuery & jQuery UI
New Form Patterns & Client Side Controls
DNN 6.2 – May 2012
Knockout.js & Service Framework MVC
Single Page Apps: Message Center & Member Directory
DNN 7.0 – November 2012
Bootstrap & Service Framework WebAPI
Additional Client Side UI Controls

13. Platform Evolution
DNN 6.0 – June 2011
jQuery & jQuery UI
New Form Patterns & Client Side Controls
DNN 6.2 – May 2012
Knockout.js & Service Framework MVC
Single Page Apps: Message Center & Member Directory
DNN 7.0 – November 2012
Bootstrap & Service Framework WebAPI
Additional Client Side UI Controls
Evoq 8.0 – February 2015
Completely new UI built with HTML, JavaScript and
WebAPI

14. SPA Modules – HTML, CSS, JS, WebServices
JavaScript
WebServices
CSS
HTML

15. SPA Modules – HTML, CSS, JS, WebServices
JavaScript Tokens
CSS Token
HTML
Resource Tokens

16. Comparing Module Types

17. Extensibility Platform
Modules
• Primary Extension
Method
• In-context
Administrative
Interface
• Granular Permission
Model
Themes
• HTML Based
• Rich Set of
Embeddable
Components
• 1000s of Available
Themes
Providers
• Swap Core
Framework
Functionality
• Minimal
Administrative UI
• e.g. Logging,
Search, Caching,
Virtual Folders

18. Resources
• DNN Wiki - http://www.dnnsoftware.com/wiki
• DNN API – http://www.dnnsoftware.com/dnn-api
• Video Library - http://www.dnnsoftware.com/videos
• Blogs - http://www.dnnsoftware.com/community-blog
• Community Exchange - http://www.dnnsoftware.com/answers
• DNN Forge - http://www.dnnsoftware.com/forge
• How You Can Contribute
http://dnn.ly/dnn-github
• Building SPA DNN modules using Razor and WebAPI
http://dnn.ly/dnn-spa-module
• DNN Development Templates
http://dnn.ly/dnn-dev-templates