Warning: rant follows.
I do some work for a client who likes DNN, and despite my own personnel luke-warm-at-best feelings towards DNN, I do work to support a web solution based on it. Today, I was reminded why DNN and the surrounding projects aren't at the top of my list. ATGen SDK for DotNetNuke is a CRUD generating tool from
AppTheory, and is listed as a feature template-set on the
MyGeneration homepage. After spending half a day trying to get ATGen working, I found that the current version doesn't work with the latest version of MyGeneration (1.2), and the version that it does work with (1.1.5) is no longer available for download.
I appreciate that all the good folks around DNN give a lot of time and effort in a voluntary capacity and that ATGen isn't part of DNN proper, but its episodes like this where DNN and the sourrounding software eco-system really falls down as a viable offering for commercial work IMHO.
MyGeneration also deserve a swift kick in the pants for linking to a defunct template library from the main page of there site. As a long-term CodeSmith user, MyGeneration hasn't impressed me.
Posted
Apr 03 2007, 04:57 AM
by
nick