Initial DotNetNuke "gotchas" with Windows XP Pro

After download the DotNetNuke_3.0.13.zip file, extracting the file, setting up my virtual directory for DotNetNuke in IIS, and creating my DotNetNuke SQL database I thought I was ready to learn more about this great open source portal application.

 

However, when I opened up the DotNetNuke.sln file within VS.Net 2003 I got the following error:

 

The project location is not fully trusted by the .NET runtime. This is usually because it is either a network share or mapped to a network share not on the local machine. If the output path is under the project location, your code will not execute as fully trusted and you may receive unexpected security exceptions.

After doing some looking on Google, I came across a blog at http://blogs.giffordconsulting.com/archive/2005/04/30/169.aspx that was very helpful. In short, this developer stated that there was a utility called ZoneStipper, created by James Kovacs (http://www.jameskovacs.com), which was available to resolve the Zone setting for the DotNetNuke source files.

 

After downloading the ZoneStipper utility, extracting the source code and rebuilding the solution, I copied the resulting exe to the parent folder of my DotNetNuke install and ran the following from the command prompt.

 

 

Problem resolved!! Now I am ready to develop!