I am interested in using Umbraco, but am finding that one challenge is that the number of extensions available is quite small compared to DotNetNuke. Is there an easy way to port DotNetNuke modules with source code to Umbraco? Has anyone created a set of instructions on how to go about this?
I've asked myself this question a several times when starting building websites with Umbraco, back in 2008 . Now when I invested some time integrating custom .net functionality into Umbraco I was convinced that Umbraco was the right choise. I could (and still can) pick any usercontrol/ custom control and use this control in Umbraco, let the user pass values to this control using macro's (an Umbraco term) and the public properties of this control, without implementing interfaces/base classes. So the conversion from a Dotnetnuke module to Umbraco shouldn't be to hard, depends on the functionality. But there is always someone in the community willing to help you.
Also I see more and more packages (modules in DotnetNuke terms) coming every week, so keep an eye on http://our.umbraco.org/projects, these projects are all free. Also some commercial packages are available.
Porting DotNetNuke modules to Umbraco
I am interested in using Umbraco, but am finding that one challenge is that the number of extensions available is quite small compared to DotNetNuke. Is there an easy way to port DotNetNuke modules with source code to Umbraco? Has anyone created a set of instructions on how to go about this?
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I've asked myself this question a several times when starting building websites with Umbraco, back in 2008 . Now when I invested some time integrating custom .net functionality into Umbraco I was convinced that Umbraco was the right choise. I could (and still can) pick any usercontrol/ custom control and use this control in Umbraco, let the user pass values to this control using macro's (an Umbraco term) and the public properties of this control, without implementing interfaces/base classes. So the conversion from a Dotnetnuke module to Umbraco shouldn't be to hard, depends on the functionality. But there is always someone in the community willing to help you.
Also I see more and more packages (modules in DotnetNuke terms) coming every week, so keep an eye on http://our.umbraco.org/projects, these projects are all free. Also some commercial packages are available.
Hope this helps you,
Richard
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