Hi everyone. I am looking for a portal framework to use in my development. Can someone explain which one is better, IBS portal or Dotnetnuke? I'm not looking to start a big debate, just learn the chief differences between the two frameworks (if any)?

Much obliged for any info!

Al

Al-

As you may know, DotNetNuke (DNN) is a spin-off of the original IBuySpy (IBS) portal which was developed for .Net 1.0 and later reissued as the Portal Starter Kit (PSK) on .Net 1.1. To my knowledge there is no further ongoing development on IBS/PSK. Development is continuing on DNN with many additional modules available. DNN is written in VB although you can develop modules in any language. IBS/PSK was available in C# or VB. There is a C# spin-off of IBS called Rainbow Portal.

Personally I think that since DNN has more features it is more difficult to develop with, but IBS/PSK is, for all intents and purposes, dead so it's probably worth the extra effort to learn DNN. Also since more people are using DNN you'll have a much better chance of getting replies in the DNN forum.

My two cents worth,

Mike

I used DNN on a project once, and that was all it took to turn me off.  I use IBS for pretty much all of my projects anymore.  The framework is so flexible, you can apply any graphical front-end that you want.  They might not be coming out with any new versions of IBS, but it is far from dead in my opinion.  The support issue is a good one, I stopped visiting this thread a while back because it was pretty quiet.

mikedeko:

Personally I think that since DNN has more features it is more difficult to develop with,

DotNetNuke is a lot easier to develop in than before, see:

DotNetNuke® 4 Module Development Guide

• Introduction to DotNetNuke Module Development
  • What is a DotNetNuke Module?
  • Installing a Module
  • A Look into the DotNetNuke Module Definition
  • A Module Can Have Multiple Instances
• Setting-up Your Development Environment
  • Setting-up the Environment (using IIS)
  • Setting-up the Environment (without IIS)
  • DNN Source Installation
• Creating the Survey Module
  • The DotNetNuke Architecture
  • Creating the Module
  • Create the Content
• Connect Your Module to the Database
  • DAL & DAL+
  • Converting the Survey module to use the DAL+
• Using the DotNetNuke API
  • IPortable: Easily export content from your module to
    deploy on your production server (VB &C#)
  • ISearchable: Easily Make Your Module Searchable (VB &C#)
  • IActionable: Add Items to Your Module Menu (VB &C#)
  • NavigateURL: How to make a link (VB &C#)
  • Module Settings and Personalization:
    Easily Store Data for Your Module (VB &C#)
  • Localization: Easily Translate Your Module (VB &C#)
• Using the DNN Web Controls
  • DnnLabelEdit
  • DnnTree
  • DnnTextSuggest
  • DnnMenu
• Packaging your DotNetNuke® Module
  • Creating compiled assemblies
• Using Web Application Projects (WAP)