In the move to DotNetNuke 3.x, the core team has decided to support the new membership provider API that Microsoft is introducing in ASP 2.0. The new model brings enhanced functionality and extensibility to DotNetNuke, but it also removes much of the profile data from the Users table to a new table named aspnet_Profile. This has essentially removed access to this data from SQL queries and joins because it is no longer stored in individual fields like in DNN 2, but now resides in a blob type field instead. This article will show you how to get it back !

If you've been noticing that the modules you are placing inside the Aggregator module are getting cut off on the right side in IE, here's a little remedy.

When you choose the 'Auto Hide Titles' option, your module is rendered within the default 'notitle.ascx' 'no container.ascx' container located in the \portals\_default\containers\_default folder. Open up 'notitle.ascx' 'no container.ascx' in a text editor and you'll see that the table width is set to '100%'. When I changed mine to '99%', the right border of my content pane seemed to behave properly and not extend beyond the enclosing

Last night I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade to DotNetNuke 2.1.2. Everything went pretty smoothly so I decided I would share my approach. If you notice anything odd with the site, please let me know at support@dnnstuff.com

OK, so admittedly calling this one a “HOWTO” may be giving the snippet delusions of grandeur. At best, it's a tip -- at worst, it's something self-evident that everybody knows already :)

However, since I had to look it up I thought I might save at least one other person the trouble. To add a menu break (those little horizontal separator bars you see in regular Windows menus) to an Action menu, just do the following:

With MyBase.Actions
.Add(GetNextActionID, "~", "")
End With

A quick example of the trivial syntax for handling Action menu events in the same module in which they're raised, without having to dig through the core to figure out how.