[Mono-list] Re: DotNetNuke on Mono (Windows)

Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:54:26 -0700

Jambunathan,

Thank you so much for your detailed and encouraging replies.

I am pretty much a noob as far as the linux/open source software world.
Consequently, I have never built an app by checking the code out from cvs and
building the app from the checked out source.  I guess building mono from CVS
would be the next step because the newer version may have the VB runtime issue
I'm running into fixed already.  I'm not really sure what the steps are to do
this.  I have a linux box too, but I'd like to stick to Windows for now 
because
DotNetNuke is highly dependant on SQL server (lots of stored procedures) and
I'd like to try to see if I can get it running using SQL Server first, then
look into what it would take to port the DB stuff to PostgreSQL or MySQL.

I recently purchased the Mono Developers Notebook, I think it has instructions
on building Mono from source on Windows so I'll enter into a learning process
and take that on, then try again with the newer version of Mono.

If folks can suggest a link to a tutorial on the process of building apps from
source on Windows, that would also be appreciated.

Thanks,

Michael Bradley

>> Theoretically, it should run on Mono, even though it's written in VB
> (isn't
>> this true?) because the application is compiled to IL.  So Mono
> shouldn't need
>> to compile any VB, just compile or interpret the IL.
>
> Very much true.
>
> Well, if it's a pre-compiled Microsoft's IL then there should be
> no issues, except possibly for some yet to be identified glitches in
> Microsoft.VisualBasic runtime, which we will be happy to address in
> no time :-)
>
> (Just to clarify on my earlier posting, if you would like to build the
> dll
> using mbas, we aren't there yet.)
>
>> Anybody done this?
>
> I am not aware of any.
>
> Regards,
> Jambunathan K.
>
>
>>>> <listmail@huntington-bradley.com> 10/21/04 10:38 PM >>>
> Thanks for your response.  Unfortunately, there is no c# version of
> DotNetNuke.
> The core team has talked about porting it, there's even a csharpNuke.com
> website.  However, no c# version has yet been made available and various
> posts
> on the DotNetNuke forum leads me to believe it will be some time (if
> ever)
> before a c# port is done.
>
> I was hoping maybe someone else has tried to run DNN on Mono.  I'ts a
> very
> capable and easy to use portal framework which I'm already familiar
> with.
> Theoretically, it should run on Mono, even though it's written in VB
> (isn't
> this true?) because the application is compiled to IL.  So Mono
> shouldn't need
> to compile any VB, just compile or interpret the IL.
>
> Anybody done this?
>
>
>> I would start off by grabbing the c# version of dotnetnuke because I
> am
>> unsure if the vb support is 100% in mono right now.
>>
>>
>> listmail@huntington-bradley.com wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I tried running the DotNetNuke open source ASP.NET portal system 
>>> using XSP (mono
>>> 1.0.2 installed on WindowsXP).  I got the following error messages:
>>>
>>> Server error in '/' application
>>> Description: Error processing request.
>>>
>>> Error Message: HTTP 500.
>>>
>>> Stack Trace:
>>>
>>> System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been 
>>> thrown by the
>>> target of an invocation. ---> System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: 
>>> Argument is
>>> out of range.
>>> Parameter name: count
>>> in <0x0004a> System.String:Split (char[],int)
>>> in <0x0012d> Microsoft.VisualBasic.Strings:Split
>>> (string,string,int,Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompareMethod)
>>> in <0x00085> DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider:ExecuteScript
> (string,bool)
>>> in <0x0001e> DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider:ExecuteScript (string)
>>> in <0x0011e> DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider:GetProviderPath ()
>>> in <0x0001a> DotNetNuke.PortalSettings:GetProviderPath ()
>>> in <0x00130> DotNetNuke.Upgrade:AutoUpgrade ()
>>> in <0x000dd> DotNetNuke.Global:Application_Start
> (object,System.EventArgs)
>>> in (unmanaged) (wrapper managed-to-native)
>>> System.Reflection.MonoMethod:InternalInvoke (object,object[])
>>> in <0x00004> (wrapper managed-to-native)
>>> System.Reflection.MonoMethod:InternalInvoke (object,object[])
>>> in <0x0007a> System.Reflection.MonoMethod:Invoke
>>>
> (object,System.Reflection.BindingFlags,System.Reflection.Binder,object[],System.Globalization.CultureInfo)
>>> --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
>>>
>>> in <0x000b9> System.Reflection.MonoMethod:Invoke
>>>
> (object,System.Reflection.BindingFlags,System.Reflection.Binder,object[],System.Globalization.CultureInfo)
>>> in <0x00021> System.Reflection.MethodBase:Invoke (object,object[])
>>> in <0x000b2> System.Web.HttpApplicationFactory:FireEvent
>>> (string,object,object[])
>>> in <0x00063> System.Web.HttpApplicationFactory:FireOnAppStart
>>> (System.Web.HttpApplication)
>>> in <0x00077> System.Web.HttpApplicationFactory:InitializeFactory
>>> (System.Web.HttpContext)
>>> in <0x00070> System.Web.HttpApplicationFactory:GetInstance
>>> (System.Web.HttpContext)
>>> in <0x000ee> System.Web.HttpRuntime:InternalExecuteRequest
>>> (System.Web.HttpWorkerRequest)
>>>
>>> I'm pretty new to Mono and not a .NET expert (though I have 
>>> developed a couple
>>> of small and simple web applications using Visual Studio and ASP.NET)
> so I'm
>>> not sure what the above error message is telling me.  I *think* 
>>> what's going on
>>> is that something in the VB runtime threw an exeption?
>>>
>>> Is this something that can be easily addressed? Can someone more 
>>> knowledgeable
>>> point me in the right direction? Or should I just hold off on running
>>> DotNetNuke on Mono until better compatibility with stuff written in 
>>> VB has been
>>> established?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> mbradley
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