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Requirements:

- ASP.NET 2.0
- Visual Web Developer (VWD)
- SQL Express if you intend to develop on your local machine

 

1) Download  the starter kit on your computer from http://asp.net/downloads/starterkits.

 

2) Unzip the DotNetNuke souce zip file.

3) Update the Web.config file

- Comment out the following:

 

 <connectionStrings>
 <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2005 Express -->
 <add name="SiteSqlServer" connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;User      

Instance=True;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|Database.mdf;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
 </connectionStrings>

 

- Add the following:

 

<connectionStrings>
  <add name="SiteSqlServer" connectionString="Data Source=server3.outsourceis.com,1435;Integrated Security=False;Initial Catalog=<DB_Name>;User

ID=<DB_User>;Password=<DB_Pass>" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /> 
  </connectionStrings>

 

Also,replace the following,

 

<appSettings>
     <add key="SiteSqlServer" value="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|Database.mdf;"/>
</appSettings>

 

with

 

<appSettings>
    <add key="SiteSqlServer" value="Server=server3.outsourceis.com,1435;Database=<DB_Name>;uid=<db_user>;pwd=<DB_password>;" />
</appSettings>

 

4) Upload all the source files to our web server.

 

6)Using your web browser,open default.aspx,DotNetNuke will setup all the database objects when it first loads.This may take several minutes.

Note:The dotNetNuke Starter Kit 4.3.1 does not need renaming of release.config ,since it has a web.config file along with release.config file.