Today has been frustrating. I have been looking for a decent component that can accept a URL and generate a PDF. There are many available, but they all have server-based licensing. Does anyone know of a component that will do that, has royalty-free licensing and costs less than $1,000?

I recently switched to Das Blog as my blogging software and so far I am loving it. It has all the features one expects and then some.

Since DotNetNuke lacks a good blogger, I have started a project to make Das Blog into a DNN module. There are several challenges to this, and over the coming weeks, as I delve deeper into this project, I will document my findings here.

Just to be safe, I asked Omar Shanine for permission, and he was kind enough to grant it.

So off we go...

If you work with a lot of RegEx expressions in .Net, here are two excellent resources:

RegEx Designer: http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=01e0dfb7-0182-45cd-94f7-2ed2df2504a9

Regular-Expressions site: http://www.regular-expressions.info/dotnet.html

Got my attention with the helpful tips for customizing the VS.Net environment:

http://www.sellsbrothers.com/spout/default.aspx?content=archive.htm#vs.netfunfacts

There was a question in the DNN forums today about how to display a wait indicator while an IFrame was loading its contents. My solution:

<script language="Javascript">


function toggleProgress(progressId, iframeId)
{
     objProgress = document.getElementById(progressId);
     objIframe = document.getElementById(iframeId);

     if ((objProgress) && (objIframe))
     {
           objProgress.style.display = (objProgress.style.display == "none" ? "block" : "none");
           objIframe.style.display = (objIframe.style.display == "none" ? "block" : "none");
     }
}

</script>

<div align="center"><img id="<%= ClientID %>_ProgressBar" src="<%= TemplateSourceDirectory %>/images/progress.gif" style="display:block" /></div>

<iframe id="<%= ClientID %>_ResultsFrame" onLoad="toggleProgress('<%= ClientID %>_ProgressBar','<%= ClientID %>_ResultsFrame')" src="http://www.dotnetnuke.com" style="display:none"></iframe>